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He has XP Pro on it but on SP1 - Broadband so I installed Lavasoft Ad-aware to find it had over 200 objects and nasty data miners.... During the clean up I kicked off the Norton/symantec live updates which then froze the puter and I had to crash out of it. On rebooting the puter up again I found that none of the .exe files can be found and none of the programs will open......
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated......
Cheers
Novice - you dont say.......
> To be honest, if i found all of those objects and then had the same
> trouble i would just reformat anyway.
True, but you are probably one of the extreme minority who know how. I'm very reluctant to remotely advise someone to flatten and reinstall their Operating System until it's clear that there's no alternative solution.
I was able to open up some of the programs last night but not via the start menu and it seems to have lost the .exe extensions on the program files.....
The files are there as I have checked but just will not open...
Oh well will let the experts have a look and hopefully can sort it out without a rebuild.
Ta for all your suggestions I think....
Novice - give in to the experts !
The fact that it's booting Windows okay gives cause for hope. Exactly what error message does it display when you run, say, notepad? Does it display the same/similar message for every program? Are there any programs that run okay - if so, which ones?
It has been suggested to check the .dll files and where the .exe files reside , but otherwise it sounds like a rebuild is the only option. - God I might as well lay back and think of England for the forseeable future.......
Thanks for all the tips muchly appreciated....
Still a novice.
On a serious note though. How far is it booting? Are you managing to get into Windows? If so, try a system restore first before resorting to blind panic/oral sex etc etc!;)
It is possible that it's gone tot he great crashed XP grabeyard in the sky!:(
I had a similar experience with my wife moaning about the laptop being slow. After a quick scan, I discovered 14 variations of NetSky at which point it promptly fell over and died resulting in a full reinstall! (And she wonders why I won't let her near my PC!?
Simple equation:
Woman + PC = Bad idea
Woman + PC / let try and be useful = Very bad idea!
Woman + borked PC x oral sex = boyfriend who really couldn't care!;)
What sort of error messages does it display?