Alright, My Workstation will not open an .exe(Executable) files except for
firefox, and It won't let me do a system restore, WTF do I do?

Any more details? OS? Last thing you did before this error occured? Any other symptoms? What error do you get when you try to run a .exe? How are you trying to run the .exe? Try doing stuff from the command prompt.

Posted by Magical Trevor Alright, My Workstation will not open an .exe(Executable) files except for firefox, and It won't let me do a system restore, WTF do I do?

Hopefully you havent turned off System Restore, I do hope you're using XP or ME....

Do a SR to a week before.

Posted by Magical Trevor Alright, My Workstation will not open an .exe(Executable) files except for firefox, and It won't let me do a system restore, WTF do I do?

Perhaps you are not logged in as Root / Administrator?

If you could provide more info, that'd be great.

i hope he's not using ME.

Alright, here some answers to your questions:

OS: XP HOME

Last thing I did was run Ad-aware SE Pro
I get an Error Message that says:

Windows cannot open this file: File: Notepad.Ink To open this file, Windows needs to know what program created it. Windows can go online and look it up automatically, or you can manually select from a list of programs on your computer.

I'm trying to run the exe as a program such as AD-aware or something.

It won't let me use command prompt because that is a program.

I haven't turned off system restore, but I can't run it.

I am logged in as the Administrator

Also: please email replies to me, I can barely ever access UER anymore because of the MYSQL errors and such. My email is walkingtornado@gmail dot com

I can't take screenshots as well because I can't paste them into a picture editing program.

My only last guess is Backup an Reformat...

Posted by Rabbit My only last guess is Backup an Reformat...

That was my thought until I realized, about 32 GB of stuff I need is in a file that I cannot open without running Steganos Safe which I cannot run.

reinstall Windows then, hope for the best and pop in the CD, OTT installation works best

OTT=over the top.

Only problem is that it won't let me install windows again because it can't run the setup file.

What the hell did you do with your computer?

Dude, Go into the BIOS and change the boot settings to CD boot as first boot device, stick the CD in an reboot, do an overthetop installation of Windows, it will de-associate all the files or atleast let you fix whatevers going on. Other than that Id say you're SOL, unless you have another computer, then you just stick this fucked one in as a slave and backup, install the program you said you needed for the one thing and then do a total reformat and a fresh install.


After a quick jump to Neowin, and re-reading the original post, Id say its one fucked stick of RAM, whats the RAM amount, is it in seperate sticks? Grab memtest86 and run that, post the results. I think its a fucked stick of RAM, fucked RAM is notorious for not running EXE's. Ill send you the memtest86 ISO to your GMail account, get it burnt to a CD and boot to this CD< it will tell you if your RAM is fucked or not, another way is to remove one stick, test if its the same problems, put the other stick in and test it alone, if the problems are gone then you have your offending stick of RAM as the source of the screwups.

Now THAT would work.

Posted by Rabbit Dude, Go into the BIOS and change the boot settings to CD boot as first boot device, stick the CD in an reboot, do an overthetop installation of Windows, it will de-associate all the files or atleast let you fix whatevers going on. Other than that Id say you're SOL, unless you have another computer, then you just stick this fucked one in as a slave and backup, install the program you said you needed for the one thing and then do a total reformat and a fresh install. After a quick jump to Neowin, and re-reading the original post, Id say its one fucked stick of RAM, whats the RAM amount, is it in seperate sticks? Grab memtest86 and run that, post the results. I think its a fucked stick of RAM, fucked RAM is notorious for not running EXE's. Ill send you the memtest86 ISO to your GMail account, get it burnt to a CD and boot to this CD< it will tell you if your RAM is fucked or not, another way is to remove one stick, test if its the same problems, put the other stick in and test it alone, if the problems are gone then you have your offending stick of RAM as the source of the screwups.

Yeah, that solved my problem. I had my computer working again a while ago, but UER was down so I couldn't let you guys know. I had to back everything up on my IPOD and that was annoying.

Alright, remember that when .EXE programs refuse to run or error out you have a RAM issue.

Posted by Rabbit Alright, remember that when .EXE programs refuse to run or error out you have a RAM issue.

I will.

Not always a ram problem; Don't forget about the idiots that associate *.EXE with WinZip >: )

Posted by Beryl Not always a ram problem; Don't forget about the idiots that associate *.EXE with WinZip >: )

Wow, how in the world could you be stupid enough to do that?

Posted by Beryl Not always a ram problem; Don't forget about the idiots that associate *.EXE with WinZip >: )

Yeah, I knew that, its just Winzip errors would come up if that was the case.

Posted by Magical Trevor Wow, how in the world could you be stupid enough to do that?

Either you must not know a lot of people or you don't have enough experience with them .

I've been, more than once, told with sincerity that, "...But I can't access your Wireless Lan. I don't have a network cable.".

Posted by Jesus Jones Yeah, I knew that, its just Winzip errors would come up if that was the case

P&L (Point and Laugh) situation. Tell them their only chance is to run regedit(.exe) to fix it and wait until you hear the scream!