none of my applications and accessories are working

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:01:51 -0700, vikas yuvvanam wrote:

> Hi! All... I had a worm in my system called wintsk32.exe,
> which I removed, using solo antivirus.
> But afterwards, none of my applications like notepad,
> calculator, hp tools, microsoft works word processor,
> windvd etc, etc are working.
> when i click them, i get a warning message that "this
> file does not have a program associated with it for
> performing this action. Create an association in the
> folders option control panel"
> I have windows xp and i tried using running the partition
> based system revorey program, but F10 key doesn't work
> when the system is booting up.
> I don't want to use CD-Based System Recovery Program,
> bcoz i have lot of data, that i may loose.
>
> Please help me... regards... vikas

Make sure your system is completely cleaned or you will be stuck in a
vicious cycle or see more odd symptoms crop up.

Then visit MVP Doug Knox's website to download a file that can fix the
broken registry entries for EXE files. (The damage was probably caused by
the worm/virus you had): http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm


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Sharon F
MS-MVP/ Windows XP - Shell/User