My icons are now "open with"!

[packsfan430]

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!

[red_house]

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.

[XtremeMaC]

@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...

[red_house]

OK, this will fix your file associations.

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

[packsfan430]

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)

[sixpack]

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

[packsfan430]

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

[Whampoom]

maybe this can help :

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

[Astalavista]

u need to register the dll for it to work

[XtremeMaC]

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

[Synapse]

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.

[slayer69]

Backup, Reinstall.... Works every time!

[red_house]

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

[red_house]

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

rundll32.zip

[sixpack]

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