G550 - short cuts no longer working

Forgive if I'm posting this in the wrong location. Please advise if I should post this elsewhere.
I have a G550 and it's been great. But today all my shortcuts to my applications stopped working.
2 issues/examples:
1) If I try to launch a web browser from my taskbar shortcut, I get asked which program I'd like to use to open it. I can select the appropriate one but I can't "save" that choice. I can launch the web browser, but then it asks if i want to save the firefox.exe file. I click cancel and the browser works but I have to go through that process each time. Same thing happens with IE, and Chrome. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Same result.
Same issue with other taskbar short cuts.
2) I go to start, programs, MS office, MS Word. I get an error message that the application is missing. But I can open a previously saved Word (and other MS Office applications) file with no issue. So the application is there. Just can't navigate to it the "traditional" way.
Any idea what's going on? My anti virus (AVG premium) is up to date and working fine. Don't suspect a virus but not sure. Extensive scans find no issues.
Solved!
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forgot about that. That did the trick.

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