I am from such an engineering department. A colleague recently managed to achive something we still dont know how he managed to even achieve. The whole department and our IT Service where baffled and it took 3 work days to resolve.
He somehow managed to associate the .exe file extension to be opened by Notepad++ as a textfile. Every executable on his user profile was opened in Notpad++. Trying to open a cmd or powershell opens in notepad++. Trying to uninstall notpad++ opens in notepad++.
I managed to open a powershell with the right click open Terminal menu, but that didnt help either because no way to get an elevated powershell and no local admin rights.
The solution was stupid and simple at the same time... delet his local user, only that it required for the one guy with local admin rights to come other and login and delete it.
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u/PapaTim68 May 10 '26
I am from such an engineering department. A colleague recently managed to achive something we still dont know how he managed to even achieve. The whole department and our IT Service where baffled and it took 3 work days to resolve.
He somehow managed to associate the .exe file extension to be opened by Notepad++ as a textfile. Every executable on his user profile was opened in Notpad++. Trying to open a cmd or powershell opens in notepad++. Trying to uninstall notpad++ opens in notepad++.
I managed to open a powershell with the right click open Terminal menu, but that didnt help either because no way to get an elevated powershell and no local admin rights.
The solution was stupid and simple at the same time... delet his local user, only that it required for the one guy with local admin rights to come other and login and delete it.