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Windows Help...WTH?
Magnet_Eye:
Hey, my PC started to restart itself the past 2 days for no reason. that's weird.
Then tonight it it did that, and when it restarted i got the black screen with text asking to choose an option...i said Start Windows Normally...then it restarted and brought me back to the same screen! over and over!
then i finally got into windows and all my .EXE files no longer wokked. but if i found them through weird channels, and they would work. that's the only reason i am writing this now. loop holes.
so, did i get hit with a virus, or did my Windows get screwed somehow? I remember at some point it asked me about a program and how to launch it, and i chose IE, and now ALL my .exe files are associated with an IE icon, but NONE of them ever launch!
I think I am screwed!
ErikRuud:
Is this Windows 98?
I had a similar problem with Win98SE a while ago.
It sounds like your windows registry may have gotten corrupted. The multiple reboots with black screens can occur when the registry is corrupt, and the backup of the reistry is also corrupt.
Sometimes you can recover if you can find a registry backup from before the problem started.
In my case, I eventually installed Win 200 Pro to solve the problems.
Wyluli:
Hmmm, My guess would have been a virus. Virus's can change your .exe files. So do you have two sets of .exe files for each program? One that works and one that does not?
Do you have virus software running? Try running a free virus program from the internet if you can.
Good luck.
Sephroth57:
if you can get to the desktop i would definately run some antivirus software. sounds like a virus to me, try booting in safe mode?
Crazy Cooter:
Corrupt registry.
If you go to windows explorer and browse to the exe's, some will work, some won't. It depends on if they need info from the registry to start ot not. You can check this by going to the add/remove programs and see what's listed there. If the list is empty... the registry went kaput.
"I remember at some point it asked me about a program and how to launch it, and i chose IE,"
What program asked?