Desktop icons won't work

[Guest]

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Hi all -

I'm posting this for a friend because he can't get online to ask himself.
Whenever he double clicks on an icon, the program won't open. He tried
clicking on the IE icon and got a about blank page that said page could not
be displayed. He ran his Ad-aware and Antivirus but no virus was found.
Ad-aware found a few problems but he cleaned them out.

Any idea why this is happening?

Newt

 

[Guest]

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He should try bringing up the task manager (alt-ctrl-del) then click
processes tab then click CPU column heading twice. See if there is anything
taking up a very large percentage of the CPU usage.

Jim

"Newtechie" <newtechie@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all -
>
> I'm posting this for a friend because he can't get online to ask himself.
> Whenever he double clicks on an icon, the program won't open. He tried
> clicking on the IE icon and got a about blank page that said page could
not
> be displayed. He ran his Ad-aware and Antivirus but no virus was found.
> Ad-aware found a few problems but he cleaned them out.
>
> Any idea why this is happening?
>
> Newt
>
>

 

[Guest]

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Hi

Please try the following link to Doug Knox's web site and run the fix for
the .EXE & .LNK Files:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

--

Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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"Newtechie" <newtechie@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:%23qkdBcoJFHA.904@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi all -
>
> I'm posting this for a friend because he can't get online to ask himself.
> Whenever he double clicks on an icon, the program won't open. He tried
> clicking on the IE icon and got a about blank page that said page could
> not
> be displayed. He ran his Ad-aware and Antivirus but no virus was found.
> Ad-aware found a few problems but he cleaned them out.
>
> Any idea why this is happening?
>
> Newt

 

[Nailer305]

Hello,
To the person who posted the dougknox.com link. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!! THIS FIXED MY PROBLEM!!!!

 

[saran008]

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