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Need help please

Original Message
Name: lazybunny
Date: March 18, 2007 at 23:12:25 Pacific
Subject: Need help please
OS: xp professional
CPU/Ram: 512mb ram
Model/Manufacturer: >?
Comment:
i have the a horrid virus. It has changed something in the WINDOWS folder so that now i can not open a SINGLE EXE file.
you click them and nothing happens and they have all lost their icon.
Is all hope lost?


ps i have anti-virus software but it is very sensitive... i had just made a minor update of windows and thought this was part of it.

lazybunny



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Response Number 1
Name: Tufenuf
Date: March 19, 2007 at 05:06:44 Pacific
Subject: Need help please
Reply: (edit)
lazybunny, See Response Number 2 in the thread at the link below. For the icon problem start your computer in SAFE mode then restart it in Normal mode. This will rebuild the iconcache.db file and should correct the problem.

http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/...

Tufenuf


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