kcl91 Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Help You Guys! All your advise for all my previous problems was great and it fixed my errors so i need your expertise again:bowdown: My computer starts up and everything is fine but when i want to open up a program (like iTunes etc..) it pops up with a box saying: choose the program you want to use to open this file: file: itunes.exe (Look Below) and it comes up with a list of program. It does this for all the programs exept Microsoft Word, Powerpoint etc.. where it says : APPLICATION NOT FOUND. The only way i got online was to say open Aol.exe with the program Aol. Help Please, Thanx in advance kcl91 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cube Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 http://windowsxp.mvps.org/exefile.htm When you try to launch applications [.exe files], an error message appears similar to the ones below and the program will not run: This indicates that the .EXE file association in the registry is corrupt. This behavior is generally caused by viruses; one of which is SirCam virus, which modifies the .exe file association in registry. To launch applications , you may need to reset the .exe file association using any of these methods: * Click Start, Run and type Command * Type the following and then press Enter after typing each one: * cd\windows * regedit * Navigate to and select the following key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ exefile \ shell \ open \ command * Double-click the (Default) value in the right pane * Delete the current value data, and then type: "%1" %* [with quotes] (ie., quote-percent-one-quote-space-percent-asterisk.) * Navigate to: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe * In the right-pane, set (default) to exefile * Exit the Registry Editor. If you're unable to launch Regedit.exe even from Command Prompt, try this: copy regedit.exe regedit.com regedit.com Alternately, you may download fixreg.com from Grisoft.com site and run it. This utility fixes the exefile association in the registry automatically. Hope thats helpful. edit: oh, i found it by: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=.exe+%22open+with%22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jordan Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Yeah that ^ >_> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcl91 Posted August 18, 2006 Author Share Posted August 18, 2006 THANK YOU SOOO MUCH It works now, merci for all your help!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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