I tried the Folder Association fix and it didn't work
Of course it did not work.
A file association problem makes itself known in an entirely different
manner. What you see is a DOS window, sometimes known as a command
prompt window (or maybe the other way around). How it got there we
can figure out later. It is not even in the "right" place - C:
\Document and Settings\whatever...).
It is in the icons folder - have you done anything regarding icons
lately? Nothing wrong with that, but this box is not where I would
expect it to be unless somebody or something changed it on purpose.
To get out of it, close the window by clicking the X in the window or
type exit <enter> at the prompt in the window. Do things get better?
How does it work after that?
If you reboot, do you continue to have this problem?
Can you make this happen any time you want? How do you do that?
Sooner or later, somebody is going to say you have malware or
something (which could be true), so download the free Malwarebytes AV
program, update the database, run a complete scan. It will take a
while to scan.
I politely say that I don't care what other AV program(s) you have,
and you better have one. An AV scanner only knows about what it is
programmed to know about and none of them know everything.
Malwarebytes is free, finds things others miss and has earned some
credibility. I can't say that for some others.
Don't download a bunch of stuff you don't know what it is without
somebody telling you why. None of this "try this, try this, try
this..." stuff. You want to fix it and fix it now. Not try things.
Please report back and we'll go from there.
