USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. This solution will modify your windows registry. Please make a backup of registry before proceeding further. Download the below file, unzip it and run with administrative privileges: Download Restore Association Registry file This file restore all the incorrect associations of .LNK files. This has been checked on Windows 7 PC.
Information Security
Recovery proof your deleted files
The only way to ensure that deleted files, as well as files that you encrypt with EFS, are safe from recovery is to use a secure delete application. Secure delete applications overwrite a deleted file's on-disk data using techiques that are shown to make disk data unrecoverable, even using recovery