Windows 8.1, trouble with opening ANY program

Basically when I click on something (internet explorer, a game, steam, Norton anti virus, ANYTHING!) the computer trys to open it using winzip, says theres an error that it wasn't found In that location and doesn't open the program.
In order to open anything I have to click on "open file location" and open it from there, thing is a lot of my games and programs don't have this option and I cant find them on the computer everytime I want to use them
I tried creating a shortcut, but it does the same thing, it seems anytime I try and open something from the desktop it opens winzip (as though its extracting files and then fails)
I tried uninstalling winzip, but this just makes it so when I click on something instead of winzip appearing it shows a loading icon and then does nothing at all, so ive reinstalled it for now
Anyone know what I can do?

Hi,
Did you mean that all of the ShortCut in your system was set open with Winzip by default, isn't it?
If that it is, in my opinion, this should be a unproperly setting caused this problem, it would be better to contact winzip support for further assistance with this problem.
http://www.winzip.com/land_support.html
Note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
In addition, please follow the step below to check .lnk file default program if it is winzip.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

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