ALL Programs opening in Word!

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

Ok, when I boot up all my programs have the Microsoft Word icon on them...
and my computer attempts to open them in Microsoft Word.

Things NOT affected are the Recycle bin, my network places, Internet
Explorer and an Apple Application (as in apple computers).

I can run a FEW things if I go through a long process of finding out the
command to run it in RUN. For example, I can run ad-aware by typing
ad-Aware.exe into run, then clicking select program from list, and then going
to the file where it's located, click on the file, which then adds it to the
list and then I click on that! and it will run But I have to do that EVERY
time. So far that has only worked for adaware, and Yahoo Messenger, It pulled
up Symantec Antivirus, but it had troubles scanning.

I attempted to do system restore in safe mode, and I had to go through the
whole scenario that I described above to even get into it! When I finally
click on the System Restore icon I get this error message-
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Restore\rstrui.exe is not a valid win32 application

Please help me!
 
SpazKatt17 explained on 5/2/2007 :
Ok, when I boot up all my programs have the Microsoft Word icon on them...
and my computer attempts to open them in Microsoft Word.

Things NOT affected are the Recycle bin, my network places, Internet
Explorer and an Apple Application (as in apple computers).

I can run a FEW things if I go through a long process of finding out the
command to run it in RUN. For example, I can run ad-aware by typing
ad-Aware.exe into run, then clicking select program from list, and then going
to the file where it's located, click on the file, which then adds it to the
list and then I click on that! and it will run But I have to do that EVERY
time. So far that has only worked for adaware, and Yahoo Messenger, It pulled
up Symantec Antivirus, but it had troubles scanning.

I attempted to do system restore in safe mode, and I had to go through the
whole scenario that I described above to even get into it! When I finally
click on the System Restore icon I get this error message-
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Restore\rstrui.exe is not a valid win32 application

Please help me!
Click to expand...

for the file types that shouldn't open with word, go into Winexplorer,
rt click one of them, open with, and then choose program.
Remember to click the checkbox for always opening that file with the
program you choose.



Professor Joe
 
SpazKatt17 has brought this to us :
Thing is... the choose program button, is gray and unclickable!!!
Click to expand...

if I missed that part previous, I am sorry
Have you tried thru WinExplorer, Tools, Folder Options, Filetypes?

Professor Joe
 
SpazKatt17 said:
Ok, when I boot up all my programs have the Microsoft Word icon on them...
and my computer attempts to open them in Microsoft Word.

Things NOT affected are the Recycle bin, my network places, Internet
Explorer and an Apple Application (as in apple computers).

I can run a FEW things if I go through a long process of finding out the
command to run it in RUN. For example, I can run ad-aware by typing
ad-Aware.exe into run, then clicking select program from list, and then going
to the file where it's located, click on the file, which then adds it to the
list and then I click on that! and it will run But I have to do that EVERY
time. So far that has only worked for adaware, and Yahoo Messenger, It pulled
up Symantec Antivirus, but it had troubles scanning.

I attempted to do system restore in safe mode, and I had to go through the
whole scenario that I described above to even get into it! When I finally
click on the System Restore icon I get this error message-
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Restore\rstrui.exe is not a valid win32 application

Please help me!
Click to expand...

Go here and get the executable association fix:

http://dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

Hopefully you'll be able to unzip the file. If that doesn't help, try
the LNK repair.
 
Back
Top