Thread: Need Some Comp Assistance: Possible to do a System Restore Without CD + other ?s

No I meant the Antivirus 2010 XP thing you mentioned. I thought you manually installed it, hence my question. Do you know how you got it?

Originally Posted by Allen

Firstly, thanks, Bruno.

Secondly, are you referring to Malwarebytes? If so, what's wrong with it? I've never had any trouble with it in the past and it seems to get glowing reviews from pretty much everyone, atleast from what I've read.

Unfortunately, I came to a roadblock following your advice, as well I try to pull it (System Restore) up from the Start Up menu and get the same "Choose the program you want to use to open this file". So, I browse and try to open System Restore via...System Restore Tells me, "C:\WINDOWS\system32\Restore\rstrui.exe is not a valid Win32 application".

You'll probably having problems running any executable and I'd suspect that if you cannot repair that association through the registry then your best bet is to rebuild.

I think the option you get with safe mode is "last known good configuration", which will only revert back to the last time the computer successfully booted. Your computer seems to be booting fine so that will not change anything.

Did the second registry fix I posted do anything or was there still no change?

I went through something similar ...

Here's how I fixed it :

Download Ubuntu | Ubuntu


Piece of cake, really.

Thanks again, guys.

Bruno: Nope, I didn't download that software. I have no idea where it came from and can't think of anything "questionable" I've done in the past few days that would have put it on my comp.

Commiecat: I'm going to give your other suggestion a go a little later. Thanks again for the help.

If that doesn't go well, I'll just try to find another XP disk. Or, hell, I might even decide to give Ubuntu a try as a couple others suggested.

If you are not up to date on patches. There are browser vulnerabilities that could be used to load it.

Originally Posted by Allen

Thanks again, guys.

Bruno: Nope, I didn't download that software. I have no idea where it came from and can't think of anything "questionable" I've done in the past few days that would have put it on my comp.

Commiecat: I'm going to give your other suggestion a go a little later. Thanks again for the help.

If that doesn't go well, I'll just try to find another XP disk. Or, hell, I might even decide to give Ubuntu a try as a couple others suggested.

HA! I did it!

This little tool here solved all my file association problems in an instant.

Unable to Start a Program with an .exe File Extension

I was a little apprehensive considering it's from 2004, but it worked a charm.

If any others out there are having the same problem I had, download that file, save it to your Desktop, double-click and you should be good to go.