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Start Menu links - completely broken and now spreading . . .?!

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by limabeans, 2009/04/08.

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    limabeans

    limabeans Inactive Thread Starter

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    **sorry, I'm not tech savy at all, so I'm probably not using the right lingo

    About two days ago, I noticed that the icons to the links under my All Programs under the Start menu all disappeared. And last night then I realized that I couldn't open any of these links to any of my programs. When I tried to manually open the programs under their C:/programfiles folders, some worked and some didn't. Now all of them don't and I noticed that on my desktop, the white, blank icons are spreading to other programs that were working before. Also, they are getting replaced with ".ink" links! Help! Is it a virus? What should I do??
     
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    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Welcome to WindowsBBS :)

    A virus is always a possibility, but your .exe association may have fouled up, see .....

    Broken EXE Association ....
    If the above fails to resolve the problem run a virus scan if you can and see if anything is picked up.
     
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    limabeans

    limabeans Inactive Thread Starter

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    I'm not sure if this was the right thing to do, but it seemed to have fix the problem - I just system restored! Yay! Thanks for your advice!
     
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    System Restore is a handy standby - glad to hear it resolved your problem :)
     
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