Friday, December 30, 2011

I cant get my computer to open .exe files!

ok so the other day I had a little problem with getting my computer to open anything. It wouldn't open IE, Firefox, Disk Defrag or any program on my desktop or indeed, anywhere else I could find them on my system. the error was the usual "select a program from the list" box,

so when I attempted to open I.E i chose I.E as the default program


I got this box



to which i just click "Run" and lo behold IE opens.
What really annoys me though is the fact that when I right click and run the application as Admin then the program will open straight up and run with no issues whatsoever.

I googled the issue and used the advice found on the URL:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-windows_programs/unable-to-open-exe-files/039ceca1-c81f-4136-8c04-bf13c0378495

This seemed to fix it, (for about two days) but now the problem has returned with a vengence so I'm kinda stuck here.  

Also,  according to Microsoft reporting about a similar problem found on XP, it could be a virus known as the W32.Sircam.Worm@mm worm virus. ? I dunno what to do with this problem but the way I'm thinking is at the moment it may just be best to  backup the PC to an external HDD, format the HDD and start again. That is, unless anyone else has any intelligent solutions? either that or upgrade to 7 home premium but I can't really see a cheap way to do this.I keep having little spaz attacks on my PC ever since about 3-4 months ago and It's driving me crazy, so Like I say, any advice or different takes on the problem would be great.

P.S. this URL will also be posted onto my FB if anyone on there can be of any help.

comment's below
Thanks!!! 

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