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I attempted to reinstall Windows ME from the Options direstory in Windows
and then all my .exe files became .lnk files. I cannot rerun Setup.exe nor Restore nor run any .exe file. I cannot connect to the Internet. The good news is, I can boot up in Safe mode or Regular mode. And I can view pictures by right clicking on a file and clicking Open With - Irfanview. The same with .htm files Open With - Internet Explorer. I can't open .html files. My file associations must be deleted. I need to associate .exe files with a program to run them. A Ubuntu disk works ok, but I don't want to install it because it won't access the Internet. And it erases my hard disk. I have no A: drive or read/write CD drive anymore, just a plain CD-ROM drive. I need a Windows Me bootable install disk for CD-ROM or a Windows XP bootable install disk, I suppose. My icons are all plain blank icons. I'm sure someone put a virus on my computer. I am using my 2nd computer with Windows 98 to write this and access the Internet. Any help will be appreciated. I've come to depent on my computer. Thanks! |
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"Gary Waterbury" wrote in message ... I attempted to reinstall Windows ME from the Options direstory in Windows and then all my .exe files became .lnk files. I cannot rerun Setup.exe nor Restore nor run any .exe file. I cannot connect to the Internet. The good news is, I can boot up in Safe mode or Regular mode. And I can view pictures by right clicking on a file and clicking Open With - Irfanview. The same with .htm files Open With - Internet Explorer. I can't open .html files. My file associations must be deleted. I need to associate .exe files with a program to run them. A Ubuntu disk works ok, but I don't want to install it because it won't access the Internet. And it erases my hard disk. I have no A: drive or read/write CD drive anymore, just a plain CD-ROM drive. I need a Windows Me bootable install disk for CD-ROM or a Windows XP bootable install disk, I suppose. My icons are all plain blank icons. I'm sure someone put a virus on my computer. I am using my 2nd computer with Windows 98 to write this and access the Internet. Any help will be appreciated. I've come to depent on my computer. Thanks! I solved the problem. I got some of my icons back, and can search my computer and delete files, and add/remove programs and I enabled system restore. I had to change the name of command.com and regedit.exe to notepad.exe because notepad was the only one working. Also, I had to hand copy a registry fix from the internet. Anyway, I am cleaning up my system so it works again. Now I know why computer repairmen charge money for their knowledge. It's a lot of work. |
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You might want to thoroughly check your system for unwanted malware. The
problem you have described is often the result of having had an unwanted virus running on the PC. You can sometimes get the likes of regedit.exe working by changing it to regedit.com. I enabled system restore. It's unfortunate that you didn't have this enabled before (it takes a deliberate act to disable system restore) as it would have solved most if not all of your problems with a couple of clicks. Make sure that you have the 290700 patch installed as otherwise any checkpoints you have will be useless. [MS KB290700 "Checkpoints that you create after September 8, 2001 do not restore your computer" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=290700)] -- Mike Maltby Gary Waterbury wrote: I solved the problem. I got some of my icons back, and can search my computer and delete files, and add/remove programs and I enabled system restore. I had to change the name of command.com and regedit.exe to notepad.exe because notepad was the only one working. Also, I had to hand copy a registry fix from the internet. Anyway, I am cleaning up my system so it works again. Now I know why computer repairmen charge money for their knowledge. It's a lot of work. |
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"Mike M" wrote in message ... You might want to thoroughly check your system for unwanted malware. The problem you have described is often the result of having had an unwanted virus running on the PC. You can sometimes get the likes of regedit.exe working by changing it to regedit.com. I enabled system restore. It's unfortunate that you didn't have this enabled before (it takes a deliberate act to disable system restore) as it would have solved most if not all of your problems with a couple of clicks. Make sure that you have the 290700 patch installed as otherwise any checkpoints you have will be useless. [MS KB290700 "Checkpoints that you create after September 8, 2001 do not restore your computer" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=290700)] -- Mike Maltby Gary Waterbury wrote: I solved the problem. I got some of my icons back, and can search my computer and delete files, and add/remove programs and I enabled system restore. I had to change the name of command.com and regedit.exe to notepad.exe because notepad was the only one working. Also, I had to hand copy a registry fix from the internet. Anyway, I am cleaning up my system so it works again. Now I know why computer repairmen charge money for their knowledge. It's a lot of work. I did get my computer working good, so I retried Windows ME install, setup.exe, and it installed perfectly and everything looks normal. I can access the Internet and all my file associations work. I did install the 290700 patch. Because several CD-ROM disks worked, Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, the game POD, and several others, I realized a Windows ME bootup disk with a registry fix would have made things easy. |
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