- Oct 29, 2014
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Yesterday when I turned my computer on, I had found the strangest thing (something which I cannot find anywhere else on the internet)
My desktop had completely reset, my taskbar and start menu had also reset, I had some programs just completely uninstall and every time I tried to open a .exe file I had the 'These files can't be opened. Your Internet security settings prevented one or more files from being opened.' message pop up and not let me change anything at all.
I thought I had this fixed by following a couple of posts on different forums about issues that were similar (going into regedit/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and then searching for .exe, after that I was told to set the first item called Defaults value to exefile. The second thing I tried was resetting my internet explorer settings). Thankfully, this seemed to work, until I turned my computer on again today and found that my 'solution' was only temporary and I had to do everything all over again.
This is, quite frankly, infuriating and I would really like to know if anyone could help me figure out what's causing it.
If you need to know, I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, I can post specs if needed, but this seems like a software problem more than a hardware problem
Thanks for any help
p.s. I'm not certain if I posted this in the right area, does anyone know where I should actually post this?
My desktop had completely reset, my taskbar and start menu had also reset, I had some programs just completely uninstall and every time I tried to open a .exe file I had the 'These files can't be opened. Your Internet security settings prevented one or more files from being opened.' message pop up and not let me change anything at all.
I thought I had this fixed by following a couple of posts on different forums about issues that were similar (going into regedit/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and then searching for .exe, after that I was told to set the first item called Defaults value to exefile. The second thing I tried was resetting my internet explorer settings). Thankfully, this seemed to work, until I turned my computer on again today and found that my 'solution' was only temporary and I had to do everything all over again.
This is, quite frankly, infuriating and I would really like to know if anyone could help me figure out what's causing it.
If you need to know, I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, I can post specs if needed, but this seems like a software problem more than a hardware problem
Thanks for any help
p.s. I'm not certain if I posted this in the right area, does anyone know where I should actually post this?
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