[dba-Tech] Open With

Max,

Well, I haven't come up with anything better after running Registry Mechanic
and Trend Micro's Housecall...  I might give that a shot.  Thank you.

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Max Wanadoo <max.wanadoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> All I can think of Steve, is to log in as Admin. Delete the user. Recreate
> the user with Admin privs.
>
> Max
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
> Sent: 19 February 2010 22:37
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: [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
>
>