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Today I found out I had a virus Via Housecall. Hoping by deleting all the files that were infected I could get rid of this virus. So i deleted all these files. 95 of them. Now nothing works on my computer, Restore doesnt work. It says (Windows cannot find 'C:\WINDOWS\***.exe'. Make sure you typed the name correctly....)*** is anything to Explorer, IEXPLORE, helpctr to Rundll.exe... Any Idea how i can get this working again?

Use your XP CD to repair the damage. If you do not have an antivirus program get Grisoft's AVG, it is free.

I just Downloaded Grisoft's AVG, it wont let me install it. It says Windows cannot find crap again but with the extention of where i downloaded it from......

try this link.
http://www.dougknox.com/
click on xp fixes, file association fixes, EXE association fix. dl that tool and follow instructions at the top of that dl page.
What happened was the virus messed with your exe associations so windows can't find em. The tool fixes that.
Good luck

FOLLOW UP ON FIX
the web site did have something that fixed my problem, Under WIN XP FIXES/FILE ASSOCIATION FIXES/EXE File Association Fix (Restore default association for EXE files)
one simple download and BAM.. i can access everything now !! WOHOO! THANKS BLENDER

I accidently messed up the folder options in control panel (file types) deleted some changed some, please tell me how to get them back to their original standard form. Also before i wemt to regedit and search for command.exe and delete it and now i cant open most programs also tell me how to get it back. i tried sysytem restore but because i deleted command.exe it says it doesnt have the program association to open and to create one in folder options in control panel. PLEASE HELP .by the way i deleted command.exe because i had some virus and i found somewhere that it was copied to command.exe. because command.exe kept open and closing all the time in task manager .

Jorge
Try this in a new post for whatever operating system you are running. You will get more help that way...lol..I don't know all.

Thanxs blener ur the best...........was just about to format my hard drive until i read this....cant thank u enough =]
"try this link.
http://www.dougknox.com/click on xp fixes, file association fixes, EXE association fix. dl that tool and follow instructions at the top of that dl page.
What happened was the virus messed with your exe associations so windows can't find em. The tool fixes that.
Good luck"

I've downloaded the EXE File Association Fix (Restore default association for EXE files) but i can't use it because when i try to open it Winzip will try to add it to archive, instead of adding it ot the registry.
Is there any other way to use the file?

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