I need serious help!

[Eric]

I'm running Windows XP Home Edition and I ran a virus
program (from Trend Micro) to delete any viruses on my
computer and afterwards, my computer can no longer
run .exe files! I can't run any applications, I awalys
get the "Windows can not find "whatever.exe" Please make
sure you typed the name correctly, etc" I really need
help with this ASAP. Thank you.

 

[Jim]

-----Original Message-----
I'm running Windows XP Home Edition and I ran a virus
program (from Trend Micro) to delete any viruses on my
computer and afterwards, my computer can no longer
run .exe files! I can't run any applications, I awalys
get the "Windows can not find "whatever.exe" Please make
sure you typed the name correctly, etc" I really need
help with this ASAP. Thank you.
.
Try running the system file checker tool, click start,

run, type in; " sfc /scannow " with that space after sfc,
and it will ask for your XP CD to copy any needed files
from. Then run disk cleanup and defragmenter tools too. Or
try to do a system restore back to before this problem
occured. Or you may need a repair reinstall of XP.

 

[peter]

Hi, have you tried re-booting from the disc and then re-
storing to an earlier time.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I'm running Windows XP Home Edition and I ran a virus
program (from Trend Micro) to delete any viruses on my
computer and afterwards, my computer can no longer
run .exe files! I can't run any applications, I awalys
get the "Windows can not find "whatever.exe"

You probably had a virus that put itself into the association for .exe
files, so that no longer works now it is missing. To restore this, Make
the following, after - - start and before - - end into a file by
cut/paste to NotePad. Don't let lines wrap around, and make sure there
is a blank line at the end. Save as "Patch.reg" then right-click on this
file and take Merge to enter it into the registry.

- - start
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe]
@="exefile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile]
@="Application"
"EditFlags"=hex:d8,07,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open]
@=""
"EditFlags"=hex:00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command]
@="\"%1\" %*"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\DefaultIcon]
@="%1"



- - end