Please! please! help cant opens no programs.

[Jack]

Somehow all my programs wanted to open up in winzip , i
mean all programs, i cant launch anything, If i knew which
programs open what i could go to the ...OPEN WITH DIALOG
BOX and associate it accordingly.. i even trie to put my
restore disk in and it dosent reconize it either. i cant
open system restore.. im beside myself.. can anyone help
me before i looser my sanity?? i can surf the web ok
thats as far as it goes,, thanks for your time here.. Its
not a virus or worm,, Someone was trying to open a
unfamiluar file and chose win zip to open with and it
associated all my files to open in winzip gthen they tried
to fix it by deleeting winzip//// its a mess pleas
[please help

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

If you can't open System Restore 'normally' try the following from
Start>Run:

%SystemRoot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

 

[Guest]

Hi

I have the same proplem but all programs (.exe) opens with wordpad, i cannot
run system restore because of .exe ending, I can open IE in "run as".
please help me, how to turn this off.
thanks Fridrik.

Hi

If you can't open System Restore 'normally' try the following from
Start>Run:

%SystemRoot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

--

Will Denny
MVP - Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups

Somehow all my programs wanted to open up in winzip , i
mean all programs, i cant launch anything, If i knew which
programs open what i could go to the ...OPEN WITH DIALOG
BOX and associate it accordingly.. i even trie to put my
restore disk in and it dosent reconize it either. i cant
open system restore.. im beside myself.. can anyone help
me before i looser my sanity?? i can surf the web ok
thats as far as it goes,, thanks for your time here.. Its
not a virus or worm,, Someone was trying to open a
unfamiluar file and chose win zip to open with and it
associated all my files to open in winzip gthen they tried
to fix it by deleeting winzip//// its a mess pleas
[please help

 

[WTC]

Go into Folder Options located in the control panel

then select "File Types" then find exe and remove it.

--
William

Hi

I have the same proplem but all programs (.exe) opens with wordpad, i
cannot
run system restore because of .exe ending, I can open IE in "run as".
please help me, how to turn this off.
thanks Fridrik.

Hi

If you can't open System Restore 'normally' try the following from
Start>Run:

%SystemRoot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

--

Will Denny
MVP - Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups

Somehow all my programs wanted to open up in winzip , i
mean all programs, i cant launch anything, If i knew which
programs open what i could go to the ...OPEN WITH DIALOG
BOX and associate it accordingly.. i even trie to put my
restore disk in and it dosent reconize it either. i cant
open system restore.. im beside myself.. can anyone help
me before i looser my sanity?? i can surf the web ok
thats as far as it goes,, thanks for your time here.. Its
not a virus or worm,, Someone was trying to open a
unfamiluar file and chose win zip to open with and it
associated all my files to open in winzip gthen they tried
to fix it by deleeting winzip//// its a mess pleas
[please help

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Hi

I have the same proplem but all programs (.exe) opens with wordpad, i
cannot run system restore because of .exe ending, I can open IE in
"run as". please help me, how to turn this off.
thanks Fridrik.

Go to the following website, look for the "EXE file association fix" and
click that link to download the zip file. Unzip the file and double click
the "exe_xp_fix.reg" file to merge into the registry. This will restore the
default exe file association.

Windows XP File Assocation Fixes:
http://dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help Ronnie, but I still have the same problem, all programs
vill open in wordpad, I think there is some setting that say"open all .exe
files in wordpad" but I do not know how to take it off.
Please help me.
best regard fridrik.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your replay WTC, but I found no exe in "File Types".

Go into Folder Options located in the control panel

then select "File Types" then find exe and remove it.

--
William

Hi

I have the same proplem but all programs (.exe) opens with wordpad, i
cannot
run system restore because of .exe ending, I can open IE in "run as".
please help me, how to turn this off.
thanks Fridrik.

Hi

If you can't open System Restore 'normally' try the following from
Start>Run:

%SystemRoot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

--

Will Denny
MVP - Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups


Somehow all my programs wanted to open up in winzip , i
mean all programs, i cant launch anything, If i knew which
programs open what i could go to the ...OPEN WITH DIALOG
BOX and associate it accordingly.. i even trie to put my
restore disk in and it dosent reconize it either. i cant
open system restore.. im beside myself.. can anyone help
me before i looser my sanity?? i can surf the web ok
thats as far as it goes,, thanks for your time here.. Its
not a virus or worm,, Someone was trying to open a
unfamiluar file and chose win zip to open with and it
associated all my files to open in winzip gthen they tried
to fix it by deleeting winzip//// its a mess pleas
[please help

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Thanks for your help Ronnie, but I still have the same problem, all
programs vill open in wordpad, I think there is some setting that
say"open all .exe files in wordpad" but I do not know how to take it
off.
Please help me.
best regard fridrik.

That file should have fixed the problem. There may be a virus involved with
this problem. Run a complete virus scan of the system with your anti-virus
program and make sure that the virus definition files are up to date.

Post back here with the results.

 

[Guest]

Hi Ronnie!

I have run my AVG anti-virus program and it is up to date, but it found no
virus.
I have run my Ad-Aware Se Personal program and it found virus
"Java/ByteVerify" in the folder Documents and settings.
Is it possible to run online virus-scan to terminate this virus?

Best regards, Fridrik.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Hi Ronnie!

I have run my AVG anti-virus program and it is up to date, but it
found no virus.
I have run my Ad-Aware Se Personal program and it found virus
"Java/ByteVerify" in the folder Documents and settings.
Is it possible to run online virus-scan to terminate this virus?

Best regards, Fridrik.

Yes. Here are some popular links to online virus scans.

Trend:
http://housecall.antivirus.com
http://housecall.trendmicro.com


F-Secure:
http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml

Panda:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/


Kaspersky:
http://www.kaspersky.com/de/scanforvirus

 

[Guest]

Hi Ronnie!
Thanks for your help. I have run antivirusscan from Trend and Panda, but it
found only "Java/ByteVerify" in my system and clean it out , so it look like
it's not a virus or what do you think?.

Best thanks, Fridrik.