Several Administrative Tools Don't Function

[Guest]

Please, hope s.o. can help, getting nowhere elsewhere, .
Message:
Windows cannot open this file.
To open this file, Windows needs to know what program created it.
Windows can go online to look it up automatically, or you can manually
select from a list of programs on your computer."
- which gets me no where.

Programs Not Functioning(may be others but have not found):

DFRG.MIS - DISK DEFRAG
COMEXP.MIS - COMPONENT SERVICES
COMPMGMT.MSC - COMPUTER MGMT
EVENTVWR.MSC - EVENT VIEWER
MSCORCFG.MSC - MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK 1.1 CONFIGURATION
PERFMOM.MISC - PERFORMANCE
SERVICES.MSC - SERVICES

Problem occurs from Admin Tools folder in Control Panel, Start Up and ALSO
directly from targets when I click on those in the actual C:\ ... folder.
System Restore 3 weeks did not help, nor cleaning, reg clean up etc; virus
etc. free. Dell XP but they are no help... yes SP2.

Thank you - Nancy

 

[Wesley Vogel]

dfrg.msc is DISK DEFRAG not DFRG.MIS. DFRG.MIS is probably some malware.

comexp.msc is COMPONENT SERVICES not COMEXP.MIS. COMEXP.MIS is probably
some malware.

Update your antivirus software and run a full system scan.

Update whatever anti-spyware applications that you have and run a full
system scan with each one.

Windows® XP File Association Fixes
Copyright 2003 - Doug Knox
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

Read the instructions. Then get...

MSC File Association Fix (Restore default associations for MSC files)

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Guest]

Wesley - Oh {{Hugs}} {{Leaps}}{{Shouts}}{{Joy}}
{{ Thank You Wesley}} and DOUG KNOX !!
That is all it took! Incredible what reaching an expert can do! You have no
idea the time and frustration I've had ...

Funny enough, the defrag ended up linked to "Certificates" - so just changed
the name and changed that defrag icon into a martian. Defrag available from
computer services anyway. The only one which didn't work or even give a
message was character map, target of actmovie.exe. Don't use and don't know
what it's for so delete shortcut.

But funny about all this, system auto updates and full scans with Norton
every single day and I check that it does faithfully, and I do ad-aware every
couple of days, and otherwise very careful, these never showed up ever. Oh
well, sure glad all is fixed.

Thank you so very much for your help,

Nancy

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Glad to hear it, Nancy.

None of those things will prevent XP from goofing up. ;-)

Character Map
%SystemRoot%\System32\charmap.exe

Character Map is used to get different characters like © ™ ¢ etc.

actmovie.exe is the DirectShow Setup Tool. Used by some screensavers and
Microsoft applications for video graphics.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Guest]

{{Thank You}} again!

The charmap.exe wasn't in \system 32 but I found it in c:\I386 so just
copied the 2 files into 32 and put shortcut into AdTools - and it works. I
see what it does now.

Thank you again. Now if only you could help with my last problem but it's a
non-Windows software one!

Nancy