Desktop icons won't work

[Newtechie]

Hi all -

I'm posting this for a friend because he can't get online to ask himself.
Whenever he double clicks on an icon, the program won't open. He tried
clicking on the IE icon and got a about blank page that said page could not
be displayed. He ran his Ad-aware and Antivirus but no virus was found.
Ad-aware found a few problems but he cleaned them out.

Any idea why this is happening?

Newt

 

[Jim Robin]

He should try bringing up the task manager (alt-ctrl-del) then click
processes tab then click CPU column heading twice. See if there is anything
taking up a very large percentage of the CPU usage.

Jim

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following link to Doug Knox's web site and run the fix for
the .EXE & .LNK Files:

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