Win10 system desktop icon becomes a PDF icon solution

If you find that all desktop icons on your computer desktop become PDF icons, what do you plan to do? Recently, many users of win10 system computers are reflecting this problem. Although it does not affect the normal use of the desktop icon, it looks at the heart. So, why is there a situation where the desktop icon becomes a PDF icon? Xiaobian Analysis: It may be because the PDF reader incorrectly associates the .Ink file of the shortcut. Need to use the registry to clear this association, the following describes the specific operation method.
The steps are as follows:
1, press the Win key and the R key on the keyboard, enter regedit and press the Enter key to open the Registry Editor.
2, open on the left side "HKEY_CURRENT_USER— SOFTWARE— MICROSOFT— WINDOWS— currentversion— Explorer— FileExts—.lnk.

3, click to expand the .lnk directory, in the directory there are two folders openwithlist and openwithprogids

4, if there are other folders, delete them all, right click The file selection is deleted. Leave only ‍openwithlist and openwithprogids

5. Next click on the openwithlist file. Look at the right side and see that there are no other items. If all are deleted, leave only one name & ldquo;default”.

6, then click openwithprogids, in the right side, in addition to "default", there are no other, and some are deleted.

7, this will be fine. Close the registry, restart the computer or log out, you can return to normal after logging out.
The above is the solution to convert the Win10 desktop icon into a PDF icon. After canceling the Ink file association, the shortcut will not be opened in PDF, and the shortcut icon will return to normal.