Ok, my comp was fine and everything was normal!!! No viruses, no spyware, no nothing! Then, after a normal restart, ALL GONE! All of my icons are not gone but have been replaced with an "open with" icon. I hope u all know what it looks like. THe error message I get is a

"windows cannot open this file: e.g. windows media player.ink"

THis is the message i get for every file. EIther open with or let the net find a suitable file. Now i can load the program by choosing open with a program and choose the original program from the list given but that is quite a pain. Is this a trojan I got or what??? Help cause I was having a bad day when this crap happened!!

(Don't ask me for no hijackthis or that cause first I donno how to use that program and second, it will not work because the installer is an .exe file whitch is not working like my icons!)

Sys. Specs:

AMD AthlonXP 2800+

Gigabyte motherboard

512 PC 2700 RAM

Nvidia Geforce 500

80GB Hitachi HDD 7200RPM

WINXP Home SP2 (got SP2 off of win update not a slipstream!)

That sums it all up I guess

Some one help me ASAP Please!

Try this - http://www.snapfiles.com/get/refreshem.html

and Tweak-ui also has an icon repair facility -

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloa...ppowertoys.mspx

Not to say that either of them will do the trick but it's worth a try.

@red_house he's icons are not the problem..

his associations are messed up.

i had that problem though i don't remember how i got rid of it, but just to make sure, those 2 programs above won't help u...

OK, this will fix your file associations.

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/fileassoc/xp_exe_fix.zip

I cannot open any .exe files cause my rundll32.exe is missing. n e one hae a copy? I need this real fast. Also, I don't quite know how 2 use this zip file. How am i going to use this .reg file if i can't use any program to actually VIEW my registry?? can someone step-by-step me through this? (ASAP)

I cannot open any .exe files cause my rundll32.exe is missing. n e one hae a copy? I need this real fast. Also, I don't quite know how 2 use this zip file. How am i going to use this .reg file if i can't use any program to actually VIEW my registry?? can someone step-by-step me through this? (ASAP)

rundll32.rar

i got the rar file thnx and I placed it in my C:\windows\system32 directory but still nothing. N E thing else?

maybe this can help :

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

u need to register the dll for it to work

regsvr32 /s nameofthefile.dll will help u but i don't know which dll they're talking about..

this sounds bad. btw.. how are you running your webbrowser if you can't run exe?

this should help with running any exe

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/exefile.htm

good luck keep us updated.

Backup, Reinstall.... Works every time!

The file provided by sixpack is in Dutch, so it's unlikely to be of too much use to your system. This one is in English

xp_fileassoc.bat

Sorry, wrong file and my edit facility isn't working correctly.

rundll32.zip

The file provided by sixpack is in Dutch, so it's unlikely to be of too much use to your system. This one is in English

sorry