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win 95 prob

  • 31-05-2002 5:45pm
    #1
    elexes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,471 ✭✭✭


    right cant do anything in it . cant open folders all icons for programs gon . has anyone got a clue ????

    if all else fails ill be reformatting the computer and reinstalling it fully

    if this happens anyone rember where in the registery the key for office was kept ???


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  • #2
    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    your symptoms could be explained a little better there..

    Does explorer not run at all from start->run or a command prompt?
    Does iexplore run?

    anyway that key your looking for:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Excel 97\97.0.0.1204(1033)\Registration

    where obviously "Microsoft Excel 97" is whatever part of Office you installed... and the numbers being the version :)


  • #3
    Defenistrator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭Defenistrator


    virus!

    can't remember the name......too drunk! sure some cutie here will remember the name of the virus that mod's the registry so you can't run executables anymore....part of the solution was renaming regedit.exe to regedit.com and searching for the key that let's you run .exe's

    was a big thing a couple of months ago....popped up after nimda....can't bloody well remember what it was called....



    all I can remember is that it pricks around with HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\command

    you should have a key in there called default, with the value of "%1" %*

    it replaces that with something els (yeah, the virus name, which I cannot remember)


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