problems with regedit, explorer and .exe files!

nibnibz · 06-29-2009, 03:03 PM

hi
recently my computer has been having problems with .exe files, dont know how it started maybe a virus or something but AVG identified all .exe extensions for my programmes as threats and another virus scanner found them as "files not found", once this happened to a programme i was unable to access it and a windows restriction message came up. i did a virus scan and removed anything i could then restarted comp (bad idea probs =/) now when i start up my pc explorer doesnt load (even in safe mode) i cant do it via taskmanager->run prog->explorer because it gives a message "windows cannot find,"explorer". make sure you have typed the name correctly and try again". i have read on other threads that a virus could have changed my .exe directory in the registry (or something like that) and give instructions how to giude through regedit and fix it but i cant access regedit through the command prompt or by run->regedt32, if i type in run-> reg edit a box appears for a second then dissapears. ive tries doing this in safe mode too.

any help on fixing this would be appreciated, i am a bit of a noob though if you havnt already gathered ^^ so ya may have to dumb it down a bit lol.
if any more info is needed just ask plz

Dogg · 06-30-2009, 01:58 PM

Sounds like you had/have a virus that corrupted most of your files or hard drive.

You could try performing a Restore and going back to a time before this occurred. If not, boot from your XP CD and perform a repair. If that doesn't work, you will likely need to reinstall XP.

06-29-2009, 03:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
nibnibz Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 5 OS: xp	problems with regedit, explorer and .exe files! hi recently my computer has been having problems with .exe files, dont know how it started maybe a virus or something but AVG identified all .exe extensions for my programmes as threats and another virus scanner found them as "files not found", once this happened to a programme i was unable to access it and a windows restriction message came up. i did a virus scan and removed anything i could then restarted comp (bad idea probs =/) now when i start up my pc explorer doesnt load (even in safe mode) i cant do it via taskmanager->run prog->explorer because it gives a message "windows cannot find,"explorer". make sure you have typed the name correctly and try again". i have read on other threads that a virus could have changed my .exe directory in the registry (or something like that) and give instructions how to giude through regedit and fix it but i cant access regedit through the command prompt or by run->regedt32, if i type in run-> reg edit a box appears for a second then dissapears. ive tries doing this in safe mode too. any help on fixing this would be appreciated, i am a bit of a noob though if you havnt already gathered ^^ so ya may have to dumb it down a bit lol. if any more info is needed just ask plz

06-30-2009, 01:58 PM	#2 (permalink)
Dogg Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: St Louis, MO Posts: 3,351 OS: XP sp3 My System	Re: problems with regedit, explorer and .exe files! Sounds like you had/have a virus that corrupted most of your files or hard drive. You could try performing a Restore and going back to a time before this occurred. If not, boot from your XP CD and perform a repair. If that doesn't work, you will likely need to reinstall XP.