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need help, my computer is hurt
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:36 pm
by rezin
so i was trying to open an exe file/program earlier and chose to open it as a notepad file.
forgot to check the "open all similar files this way" box and now my shites all screwy.
just about anything i try and open pops up as a notepad file with all this gnarly code and at the top says that it cant be open in DOS MODE.
cant open any of my anti-virus stuff or even my system recovery.
any ideas on what i should do?
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:42 pm
by Garr
What OS are you using?
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:41 am
by rezin
windows vista ultimate.
i think im onto it.
i found a place where someone was having a similar problem so i dontloaded some sort of patch or plugin and i can use things now.
so i did my system recovery, jumped back a couple of weeks and now its saying my nortons antivirus software is turned off.
i didnt turn it off so im not sure where to go to turn it back on.
ideas?
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:12 pm
by cwallace
Uninstall it and install AVG...
Solves all your problems...
Chris
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:47 pm
by rezin
cwallace wrote:Uninstall it and install AVG...
Solves all your problems...
Chris
thanks.
somethin got screwed up, so i called them and the indian guy, whom i could barely understand told me that he can connect my comp to a specialist and he would fix it for $65.
i hung up.
restarted my comp, a prompt came up and apparently something wasnt updated or got screwy when i did my system recovery im assuming, but it updated it for me within a minute.
and it was free.
thank god im not a shmuck.
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 8:26 am
by cwallace
Vista is VERY good at fixing itself...
Chris
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:04 am
by deek
Granted, you need a terabyte of RAM for it to work properly:)
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:46 pm
by cwallace
Not at all...
1 GIG works perfectly fine...
2.4 ghz or better P4 (celeron will work also, but it will lag a little.)
They cleaned up a lot with SP1 and the beast is stable...
I have 2 Vista machines now and no longer use XP.
Anyway...with the cost of hardware...there is no reason you shouldn't have a BAD ASS machine sitting on your desk in front of you...
Chris
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:07 pm
by deek
True...but I so love running old hardware...
But that's a "me" issue, not a Microsoft issue:)