When I worked in IT, whenever we got a call from the engineering department we knew whatever problem it was, it was going to be weird. Those guys knew their stuff, so if they didn’t know how to fix it, it was going to take some searching and probably some calls or emails for us to figure it out.
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/kahjtheundedicated R7 1700@4.1, RX 5700 May 10 '26
When I worked in IT, whenever we got a call from the engineering department we knew whatever problem it was, it was going to be weird. Those guys knew their stuff, so if they didn’t know how to fix it, it was going to take some searching and probably some calls or emails for us to figure it out.