

Usually, I also click the Always use this app to open _ files checkbox, just for good measure. You don’t actually need to change the app you’re using to open this file type.Īll you really need to do is click the OK button. Right-click on it and choose Open with…ĭepending on the type of file, the default app/program will be different than what is shown above. Pick any file that has a grey X (or other wonky symbol) on it. There is one fix though that is very quick, very easy, and it has worked for me every time. It seems to occur randomly, and there are several fixes out there. But now, it seems that when I tried to do a system restore, one wasn't available. I actually had this problem several times in Windows 7, and Windows 8, and Windows 10! The grey X’s look like this: Red X on Volume Icon, 'No Audio Output Device is installed.' I've been having that problem for a while now, but I could always just system restore back to a previous state and my sound comes back. In any case, this problem is really annoying, and you’d like to fix it. Sometimes, it’s not a grey X, but another weird symbol. You look closely, and finally you realize that all the little “shortcut arrows” that indicate an icon is a shortcut have been replaced (magically, of course) by a grey “X”. There you are, minding your own business, when suddenly you realize that all the shortcut icons on your desktop have changed somehow…
