[dba-Tech] Open With

Dear Group,

I'm trying to fix a PC belonging to a friend.  If I'm logged in as
Administrator everything works fine.  But when I log in under my friend's
login (Administrator privileges) almost nothing works.

That is, when I click the Microsoft Word 2003 shortcut on the Start menu or
even if I double-click Winword.exe in the MS Office folder, I get a dialog
box titled "Open With" saying "Choose the program you want to use to open
this file: WINWORD.EXE.  That dialog box appears for nearly every program.

Alternately I'll see a small dialog box:

Error
Application not found


None of the normal System Tray icons appear either.

Sometimes I've seen the message "C:\Windows\System32\Rundll32.exe not found"
or something similar.

I can choose Run As... for these applications and run as Administrator and
things are OK.  Of course, the My Documents folder is for the Administrator
login, not my friend's.

I've run MalwareBytes, AVG, and Registry Mechanic as Administrator.  I've
found and fixed plenty of stuff, but this "Application not found" or "Choose
the program you want..." continues to happen.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI