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[Zaerosz]

So I messed up my computer. I opened the dfhack dll file in Notepad to see how it worked, and now half the dll files on my computer aren't working properly. I cannot play DF. Help me. How do I reset the dll files?!

(Running Vista, if that makes a difference.)

[Zaerosz]

What, did I post this in the wrong forum or something?

[Dasleah]

No, you just expected an answer too soon. We've no obligation to answer your question quickly, or even correctly.

[Medicine Man]

Fuck man, most people know that you will screw up almost everything in your computer by opening a .dll file with notepad or something else.

I suggest formating your computer. You'll lose everything but at least things will run.

[Zaerosz]

...well shit. I am an idiot. Could I just stick everything without a .dll on an external hard drive and reformat?

[ILikePie]

Are they just opening with notepad right now? If so open explorer, click tools -> folder options, and find dll. There should be a reset, default or some kind of other option in there (I'm translating from Hebrew, so name might be entirely off). Should be in the lower right, I think.

[Zaerosz]

...that didn't do anything.

[ILikePie]

It seems the menu under vista is different (the file type section ain't there), what /did/ you do?

[Moogie]

What. Dwarf mc dwarf, I do hope you're trolling.

There's no harm in associating .dll files with Notepad. Windows will use the correct method of using the files regardless of user-specified associations. Whatever's wrong with your system, it's not this.

However, there's ways of getting rid of that association if you really hate it. Google picked up on a few when I had a look just now. One in particular looks to be the best method, but the caveat is, I have no idea how to specify a 'null' association with it. But I guess you could experiment.

Click Start, All Programs, Accessories. Right-click Command Prompt and choose Run as administrator.
When the command prompt comes up, type:

assoc .dll=


...You could leave it at that and see if it works. Or you could write the word "null" after the equals sign, or maybe put a space there... I don't know. Something will work.

There's also the registry-editing method, but I'm too tired to re-discover wherever I stumbled across it.

Hope it helps

[Zaerosz]

Hm. Well, I seem to be able to play DF still. Guess I just lost a file somewhere or something. Genned a new world and it turned out fine.

[ILikePie]

Click Start, All Programs, Accessories. Right-click Command Prompt and choose Run as administrator.
When the command prompt comes up, type:

assoc .dll=

There's a command line tool for this?

[Zaerosz]

Okay, so nothing appears to be broken. Don't freak me out like that, McDwarf.

[Medicine Man]

Sorry. I couldn't resist 

[Zaerosz]

Bitch.

[Moogie]

Click Start, All Programs, Accessories. Right-click Command Prompt and choose Run as administrator.
When the command prompt comes up, type:

assoc .dll=

There's a command line tool for this?

You can do anything with the magic power of DOS.

Or maybe not, I have no idea, I just Googled it.