a few problems

a few problems,,,

hey team, im having a few problems.. firstly, when i try something like right clicking one IE and selecting Properties i get a message that reads "windows cannot access this specific device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item. "

i get the same message when i try to open add/remove programs.

my other problem is that when i try to just open a .jpg, which are associated with my image preview program, i get a message that says "location/filename.jpg is not a valid win32 application "


basically my problems occured when i started to attempt to clean out some of my computer,, i just foudn out that some processes are not viewable by hitting ctrl+alt+delete, so i got a third party process viewer and saw some fishy programs in the mix,, here they are:

thanks in advance..
max.

DDHELP.EXE 4294161025 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DDHELP.EXE Microsoft DirectX Helper 4.07.01.3000. Copyright © Microsoft Corp. 1994-2000
EXPLORER.EXE 4294868181 C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE Windows Explorer 5.50.4134.100. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1981-2000
KERNEL32.DLL 4279177221 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL Win32 Kernel core component 4.90.3000. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1991-2000
MMTASK 4294948433 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\mmtask.tsk Multimedia background task support module 4.90.3000. Copyright © Microsoft Corp. 1991-2000
MPREXE.EXE 4294950045 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MPREXE.EXE WIN32 Network Interface Service Process 4.90.3000. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1993-2000
MSGSRV32 4294923949 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSGSRV32.EXE Windows 32-bit VxD Message Server 4.90.3000. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1992-1998
MSNMSGR.EXE 4294791281 C:\PROGRAM FILES\MSN MESSENGER\MSNMSGR.EXE Messenger Version 6.0. Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation 1997-2003
PRCVIEW.EXE 4294763141 C:\MY DOCUMENTS\APS\PRCVIEW.EXE Process Viewer Application 3.7.3.1. Developed by Igor Nys, 1995-2003
STIMON.EXE 4294731805 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\STIMON.EXE Still Image Devices Monitor 4.90.3000.1. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1981-2000

 

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Whats fishy about those proccess ,, did you delete any ? or just kill the proccess ?

 

im just not familiar with all of them, and though maybe one of them had to do wiht my recent problems.. i dunno.. i was sorta posting those processes to see if they were all ok,, i never know that all those things were running,, in the past i though only what was visible when pressing ctrl+alt+delte was what was running..

 

No theres quit a few that dont show normaly.

did you delete any ? or just kill the proccess ?
If the first you might best use system restore.. if the second just restart your PC

 

i didnt delete or kill any processes,, and i got another problem,, i cant restore???? firstly, it wont allow me to set a new restore point,, and secondly, when i attempt to restore, it just hangs,,, i got a bad feeling here.. sorry for the delay aswell, i will be checking here very often now..

 

all the proccess's you listed are OK
Often installing the free infranview will fix image problems
IrfanView - most popular viewers worldwide: http://www.irfanview.com/

Is your Operating system up to date Is Internet explorer up to date ?
have you ran a full system scan with a anti virus program and done an online scan ?

Go start run
scanreg /fix
hit enter,, if nothing happens go start, programs ,accessories
ms-dos prompt ..open it and type
scanreg /fix
hit enter

Use IE's repair option via control panel add-remove-programs start the uninstall and select repair, note for us any error messages

have you scanned with both anti spyware/mail-ware programs
Adaware and SpyBot ?
and did you update them before scanning ?
also have you looked here ?
http://www.windows-help.net/windowsMe/system-restore3.html
First try (if your still having problems) running system restore in safe mode..


have you ran scandisk in thorough mode and then ran disk defrag
lately,, in safe mode ?
Regards
Lonny

 

thanks for the indepth reply,, i will follow a bunch of your instructinos and get back to you tomorrow..

the only thing i had done really was run spybot, adaware and done a housecall scan..

i will post tomorrow.. thanks