I'm hoping someone can help me. I have a windows Vista machine at home and I got one of those viruses that imitate the MS virus scanning tool. I logged off my acct and ran the malware tool I have and the virus scanner and cleaned everything up. But when I logged back into my user acct I could not open any icons or run any programs it seems that they are not recognizing the .exe files as valid. I get the error saying there is no program associated with this shortcut. But even when I try to run it manually it doesn't work. I can go into my other user acct and run all the programs fine.
So my question is if I can't fix my user acct what do I need to do to create a new one but duplicate what I have now? I'm especially concerned about my email files, contacts etc. I can easily move my important personal files over I'm just really concerned about the mail and other programs I run now.
Any help if appreciated. Let me know if you need more info.
BTW I do not have a valid restore point to work with. I have since created one in case I mess something else up while I try to fix this problem.
Using the EXE download in the tutorial may be able to fix this for you. It will restore all of the default associations for the exe file extension type in Vista.
Thanks I took a look at that and it really doesn't eplain the issue I'm having. It's not just with the Vista file extentions it's with everything under this ID.
For instance I went to launch word and I got the error:
c:\Program Files\Micrsosoft Office XP\office10\WINWORD.EXE
Application not found
I know it's loaded and it works under my other ID. I get the same error for everything. I'm wondering if I need to kill this ID and just start a new one. I just don't want to lose my files or my Email items.
If you mean with every EXE file, then the download should be able to help with this. It only sets it back to the default so it's worth a try to see if it may help since it will not hurt anything.
I also started building a new user acct. Not a big issue but now I'm trying to get my mail messages ported over and I'm having trouble. I'll be searching the site for an answer.
Thanks for the link to the tutorials. This site is great and I really appreciate all the help.
One more issue seems to have come up.
If you look at the screen shot I've attached you can see the folders with the icons that look like short cuts. I have no idea why that is happening but the real issue is I get access denied errors whenever I try to open on of these folders. Any ideas?
Yeah, you will not be able to open those since they are not real folders but junction points to the real folder instead for backwards compatibility with older programs that still reference them instead of the new Vista locations.
Some of them are easy to find the true location. For example, "My Documents" is the C:\Users\(user-name)\Documents folder. For the others, you can use the shell command for that folder to help find and open it easier.
. I have since created one in case I mess something else up while I try to fix this problem.
