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Dan Wenz
There's a .lnk suffix showing up on all shortcuts, although that suffix
is normally hidden, which happened right after I installed Lavasoft's
Ad-Watch :-( Executable (.exe) files also no longer work. I'd been using
their Ad-Aware for over a year, and had never used Ad-Watch, which I did
have from the original installation. Before joining this group I had
been "Googling" for the last couple of days, and did find at least one
other gent who had the same problem with Ad-Watch! I had also found and
tried the fixes I found via Google for malfunctioning executable
programs and shortcuts (The fixes change some registry files). The fixes
haven't worked (Yet), but I'll give them another try until I get further
immersed in this problem. Suffice to say, I uninstalled Lavasoft's
software until I get a handle on the problem
So far, the only way I can access an executable is to go to a Dos box
and change .exe to .com, thanks to Googling answers, but that's pretty
kludgy, so any help appreciated. Thank heavens I have a second computer
connected via a lan, since the "master" computer won't until I clearup
my problem.
Finally, I did buy a humongous $40 reference manual, to use as a
reference, still browsing it. I also took a look, using Folder Options
from the Control Panel, to look at file associations, which I know very
little about - I see none listed for .exe files, so no luck there. Back
to Google!
is normally hidden, which happened right after I installed Lavasoft's
Ad-Watch :-( Executable (.exe) files also no longer work. I'd been using
their Ad-Aware for over a year, and had never used Ad-Watch, which I did
have from the original installation. Before joining this group I had
been "Googling" for the last couple of days, and did find at least one
other gent who had the same problem with Ad-Watch! I had also found and
tried the fixes I found via Google for malfunctioning executable
programs and shortcuts (The fixes change some registry files). The fixes
haven't worked (Yet), but I'll give them another try until I get further
immersed in this problem. Suffice to say, I uninstalled Lavasoft's
software until I get a handle on the problem
So far, the only way I can access an executable is to go to a Dos box
and change .exe to .com, thanks to Googling answers, but that's pretty
kludgy, so any help appreciated. Thank heavens I have a second computer
connected via a lan, since the "master" computer won't until I clearup
my problem.
Finally, I did buy a humongous $40 reference manual, to use as a
reference, still browsing it. I also took a look, using Folder Options
from the Control Panel, to look at file associations, which I know very
little about - I see none listed for .exe files, so no luck there. Back
to Google!