stretched

Scanreg.exe under dos said good registry, and your registry was backed up

!!!!

here are the dates of the backups:

8/25
8/24
8/23
8/22

Now I think I got wacked on 8/25, should I restore 8/22???

Regarding the other stuff, a bit of confusion about the paths.

I dont see HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command

I have HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\Shell\open\command

its has the ab image; then (default), and under "data" it says: "notepad.exe %1"
It looks like a space between "exe" and "%1"

I also have HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe

it has the following three items:

ab image; then (default), and "exefile"
ab image; then Content Type, and "application/x-msdownload"
ab image; then ZAMailSafeExt, and "zl9"

This is a list of the only "e" folders under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ :

.emf
.eml
.eps
.exc
.exe

the last of which I provided....

it looks like something's wrong...