I removed a virus from my system and now certain application (.exe) files will not run. I get a dialog box that says "Windows cannot open this file: FILEname.exe To open file Windows needs to know what create it.." This only happens with some .exe files. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks... Ronnie
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Jump to Posttry downloading exefix
Jump to PostI do not think that this is resulting from a problem with windows per se. That error msg comes from shell32.dll which shows that it iss trying to handle your exe file. Some programs place many entries in the registry concerned with their opening, when you initiate a program explorer …
Jump to PostIt may be more than just shell32.dll, but the easiest way to replace that is to just open an explorer window to system32, and rename shell32.dll to.. oh... shell32old.dll
Windows should copy in from its store a new shell32.dll within a few seconds. [You may need to jolt it by …
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