packsfan430 Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 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 motherboard512 PC 2700 RAMNvidia Geforce 50080GB Hitachi HDD 7200RPMWINXP Home SP2 (got SP2 off of win update not a slipstream!)That sums it all up I guessSome one help me ASAP Please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_house Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Try this - http://www.snapfiles.com/get/refreshem.htmland Tweak-ui also has an icon repair facility - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloa...ppowertoys.mspxNot to say that either of them will do the trick but it's worth a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 @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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_house Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 OK, this will fix your file associations.http://www.dougknox.com/xp/fileassoc/xp_exe_fix.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packsfan430 Posted December 28, 2004 Author Share Posted December 28, 2004 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixpack Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packsfan430 Posted December 29, 2004 Author Share Posted December 29, 2004 i got the rar file thnx and I placed it in my C:\windows\system32 directory but still nothing. N E thing else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whampoom Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 maybe this can help :http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astalavista Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 u need to register the dll for it to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 regsvr32 /s nameofthefile.dll will help u but i don't know which dll they're talking about.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synapse Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 this sounds bad. btw.. how are you running your webbrowser if you can't run exe?this should help with running any exehttp://windowsxp.mvps.org/exefile.htmgood luck keep us updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slayer69 Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 Backup, Reinstall.... Works every time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_house Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 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 Englishxp_fileassoc.bat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_house Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 Sorry, wrong file and my edit facility isn't working correctly.rundll32.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixpack Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 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 Englishsorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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