[dba-Tech] W2K won't explore/run things normally

Jon

It WAS weird...my versions on disk have installed fine on every other 
machine I've worked on.
Normally, my usual clean-up procedures, run anti-spyware apps, anti-virus 
apps, clean up
the registry, remove junk startups, etc. work fine but not on this occasion...

It's been fine since...

Ralph Bryce

At 22:44 02/02/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>That's weird... the only service pack I've ever had a problem with was SP2
>for Win2k... screwed up three (admittedly quite old) pc's royally, but SP3
>fixed it and I've not had a problem since...
>
>
>Jon
>
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>[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Ralph Bryce
>Sent: 02 February 2005 22:40
>To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W2K won't explore/run things normally
>
>
>John
>
>Had exactly these symptoms last week. In the end, I reinstalled Windows 2000
>from the original disks (thankfully, I didn't have to reformat, etc).
>Problem disappeared
>but then had to download SP4 and other updates from the Microsoft website
>as the
>versions I had on disk just would not install.
>
>Then Word and Excel wouldn't open files (Access worked OK) so had to also
>reinstall
>Office 2000 and service packs.
>
>HTH
>
>Ralph Bryce
>
>
>At 20:41 02/02/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >I have an old PC running Win2000 (fully up-to-date) and looking after my
> >ADSL connection, running firewall, centralised anti-virus updates, etc.
> >Occasionally something else, but mostly just these essentials.  PC is on
>all
> >the time, typically two weeks between reboots.
> >
> >It's suddenly become unhelpful -
> >1.      trying to run programs via Start gives "Windows Explorer   Unable
>to
> >run this command"
> >2.      Winkey+E (shortcut to run Explorer):  "Access to the specified
> >device, path, or file is denied."  (I'm running as Administrator.)
> >3.      Double-clicking on a file to invoke the associated program:  no
> >effect at all.  (eg .txt to run notepad)
> >4.      Very few system things in the Control Panel work: most give symptom
> >2 or 3 above.
> >
> >It's not just shortcuts, either.  Locate notepad.exe itself and double
> >click:  nothing.
> >
> >BUT Winkey+R (to Run something) works fine!  Explorer and all the rest - IF
> >you know what to type in the Run window, eg  compmgmt.msc /s   Everything
> >works OK in itself: I just can't run anything the normal way.
> >
> >Same after rebooting.  And the services are all running fine: ADSL, ZA,
> >Sophos, ...   And nothing interesting in the Event Viewer.  Did a full
>virus
> >and spyware scan, to be on the safe side - nothing.
> >
> >Can't find anything useful on MSKB (and it's not Q172223).  Just had a
>quick
> >Google, but nothing useful so far.  And no, I don't have a folder call
> >"Program" on my C drive, nor am I trying to play an audio CD, ...
> >
> >Has anyone come across a problem like this?  Or have any bright ideas?  I
> >strongly prefer to tackle and solve problems than give up and reformat,
> >reinstall, etc.
> >
> >John
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