Hello all,
Got another bizzare problem…
I have a machine that looks like it has been heavily modified by a user. One of the problems it is currently having is when you try to double click a text file you get an error stating that Windows can not find the file, check the spelling.
The other oddity is if I choose to open a file with another program, the window opens asking which program I want to use, Notepad is not there… So I navigate to Notepad in c:\windows\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE but when I hit open, I go back to the Open With screen, and Notepad is not there even though I just selected it!
I went into Folder Options and looked at the default choices for what to do with a text file, and the default is Open, and it has an action of “%SystemRoot%\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1” so I paste that line into my Run line, and sure enough it lauches like it should.
I have virus scanned and spyware scanned this machine, and it did have some major spyware, but removing those did not affect this problem.
The machine is Windows XP SP1 with all patches applied. I do not know when this problem started or what caused it.
Any tips would be very appreciated!
Eric