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: Ad Aware Horror Story : kimmy707 September 29, 2006, 08:57:18 PM I had Ad Aware SE installed on my PC up to around Februaury this year. Everything was going well until one day I turned on my compter and most icons on my desktop looked like the windows generic icon. Also, when I tried to open my .exe or .lnk files a message would come up saying there was no file association for the program. After tirelessly sifting through the web I found that Ad Aware identified the associations as viruses or something liek that and had deleted them-my sytem was seriously messed up.
Afterards I found the fixes and imported them into the registry but my computer is still not completely fixed. I found that many programs that came with xp (like games/volume control/character map/paint) are missing and I can't find the disc I need to get them back. Is there any place on the web that I can find these files? :yquestion: I would be really happy if I could get them back : Re: Ad Aware Horror Story : Squeezebox September 30, 2006, 05:58:52 AM If your system is as messed up as you describe, then you probably need to reinstall or repair Windows. Do you have either a recovery disk or the full system disk?
: Re: Ad Aware Horror Story : Strum October 09, 2006, 12:54:24 PM I had Ad Aware SE installed on my PC up to around Februaury this year. Everything was going well until one day I turned on my compter and most icons on my desktop looked like the windows generic icon. Also, when I tried to open my .exe or .lnk files a message would come up saying there was no file association for the program. Umm, is that something the rest of us should worry about? : Re: Ad Aware Horror Story : mike02 January 16, 2007, 02:00:16 PM Just to add to this... i also have this same Ad Aware program and have lost my destop backround and my ability to change to another picture. I wonder if somehow Ad Aware is causing this : Re: Ad Aware Horror Story : Essexboy January 16, 2007, 03:26:56 PM To reset associations there is a small programme available to do that http://wiki.djlizard.net/Repair_Permissions
Developer Provided Description - "If you are unable to run .exe, .bat, .com, .reg, .cmd, and so forth, you will want to download the following package which will assist in repairing the assocations. The package contains several versions of the same script. This is because you may have one or more working executable associations that you can use to launch the script. For instance: your .exe association isn't working, but for whatever reason, you are able to run .cmd scripts. There are .bat, .cmd, and .reg versions of the script. In the reg version folder, there are two ways to apply the assocations: apply them all at once by importing !ALL.reg, or individually, by applying separate\bat.reg, separate\cmd.reg, etc. If you are unable to import .reg files, or launch regedit.exe in order to import them, you will need to use the cmd or bat version. If you are unable to run either of those, there are a couple of tricks to get around it. You can attempt to go into the aforementioned Safe mode with command prompt and run the .bat or .cmd from command prompt. Another way is to go to Start > Run (if Windows even works at all) and type 'cmd.exe' - - if Windows then asks you what you want to run cmd.exe with, then click browse and choose C:\ Windows\System32\cmd.exe, and it will open with itself. You should then be able to run any of the association resetters with ease." I have been experiencing problems with adaware, so about six months ago I binned it and after lots of trials have settled on SuperAntispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/?tag=GOOGLE-SUPERANTISPYWARE |