I cant open anything!!!

mom34 · May 4, 2008

Something happened to change the program that opens all my file/games/everything!! Now everything opens with adoby acrobat, i removed adoby now it cant find what it needs to open every thing. I tried finding open with but it wont show up on anything!! this is so messed up, I dont know how it happened. I have virus and spyware and firewall all working before this. I even tried to do a system restore and cant even open that. Can someone please help me?????:cry

TimW · May 4, 2008

Can you go to start / run / and type 'restore" without quotes.....does it open? You may have either lost your exe file associations or have malware....

mom34 · May 5, 2008

Tried it doesnt work but thanks. I think it may be mal ware but cant get my removal tool to run because of this. I think I am going to try to reinstal vista altogether and see if that fixes it. thanks for trying to help tho.

DutchMarco · May 5, 2008

have a go at reporting your problem at the malware section. They might be able to find a way to get your removal tools running. Try starting in safe mode if you haven't done that yet.

plodr · May 5, 2008

Can you boot into safe mode? Tap F8 as the computer boots up
If so, open Explorer and locate C:\Windows\Scanregw.exe and create a shortcut to that folder on the desktop.
Right click the shortcut, select properties and in the box that says target and a space and \restore
so the target box now has the following
Code:
C:\Windows\Scanregw.exe \restore
Close that properties box and double-click to open the new shortcut. You should now be able to select a restore point.

mom34 · May 6, 2008

IT worked. Thank you sooo much you are a golden god!!!!! Booted in safe mode and then did this (C:\Windows\Scanregw.exe and create a shortcut to that folder on the desktop.) like you said. god thank you so much!!!!! you may have my first born ( not that you would want him lol )

sach2 · May 6, 2008

Can you boot into safe mode? Tap F8 as the computer boots up
If so, open Explorer and locate C:\Windows\Scanregw.exe and create a shortcut to that folder on the desktop.
Right click the shortcut, select properties and in the box that says target and a space and \restore
so the target box now has the following
Code:

C:\Windows\Scanregw.exe \restore

Close that properties box and double-click to open the new shortcut. You should now be able to select a restore point.
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Nice tip, plodr!

plodr · May 7, 2008

I had to do that to one of my computers a few years back. I was grateful to the poster who walked me through that procedure.
I'm glad it worked for you. Write it down and if someone else needs rescuing, you can be the knight in shining armor!

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