Can't open ANY program

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Townsend

Occasionally when I reboot, I get an error message
with EVERY program I try to open. It tells me either
the path, file, etc cannot be found or I don't have
the appropriate permission to access the file.

I have administrator authority as I am the only
user on my PC - there is no network.

Sometimes I have to reboot several times before I can
open my programs from the desktop shortcuts OR even
from Program Files/whatever.exe.

Anyone have any ideas - it's driving me nuts

Thanks in Advance, Paul
 
Townsend said:
Occasionally when I reboot, I get an error message
with EVERY program I try to open. It tells me either
the path, file, etc cannot be found or I don't have
the appropriate permission to access the file.

I have administrator authority as I am the only
user on my PC - there is no network.

Sometimes I have to reboot several times before I can
open my programs from the desktop shortcuts OR even
from Program Files/whatever.exe.

Anyone have any ideas - it's driving me nuts

Thanks in Advance, Paul
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Occasionally when I reboot, I get an error message
with EVERY program I try to open. It tells me either
the path, file, etc cannot be found or I don't have
the appropriate permission to access the file.

I have administrator authority as I am the only
user on my PC - there is no network.

Sometimes I have to reboot several times before I can
open my programs from the desktop shortcuts OR even
from Program Files/whatever.exe.

Anyone have any ideas - it's driving me nuts

Thanks in Advance, Paul
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Sounds like a serious problem, use System Restore to revert to a
previous date. You could have a virus, trojan, worm or spyware
installed thats interfering..

Peter Hutchison
 
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