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EXE's not responding tried fixes nothing works. need help

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July 6, 2011 1:07:02 PM

I ordered this new pc from ebay, but when i booted it up i found that it doesnt respond to EXE's
it doesnt show their thumbnail graphics and when theyre double clicked it does nothing, occasionally ill get a flash of the black dos window but it soon disappears and im left with nothing
the system is running windows xp professionally sp2 and i cant upgrade to sp3 because it wont run the exe file

ive seen some fixes online but none seem to work, some of them are zip files which i cant open and some give error messages and some just dont work

i need help because id rather fix than go through the hassle of returning it, any help is appreciated, thanks

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July 6, 2011 1:49:46 PM

umm, did you reinstall windows when you got the machine?

if not I strongly recommend to just wipe the hard drive clean and install from the boot cd
July 6, 2011 2:57:49 PM

it came pre installed and i dont have a boot cd,
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July 6, 2011 3:52:11 PM

omer94 said:
it came pre installed and i dont have a boot cd,


Then you got robbed and possibly have an illegal version of windows on your machine. Every new PC must come with a copy of the OS either on disk, or as a recovery partition.

If you are lucky, you may be able to do a system restore to an earlier time and it may fix it. Losing the ability to run exe files is usually a symptom of a virus or other malware.

EDIT:
Try to contact the seller to get a copy of the windows DVD.
July 6, 2011 8:56:42 PM

i will do :)  tbh it wasnt a new machine as such, its a really old system i bought for my little brother, pentium 4, 1 gb ram.
ill contact him otherwise ill just 'aquire' a 'legitimate' disk and re install windows :) 
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