Links, dll's, and programs not working

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I recently either had a virus or a program that deleted something in either
the registry or who knows what but after deleting the program that caused the
problem, Whenever I try to either run a program via the "Run" command prompt
or by clicking its icon, I get an error message saying "Windows cannot find
<path or file>. Make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again.
to search for a file, click the start button.....etc.". It even says this
error message when programs try to access dll's like rundll32 or something
else. I checked to make sure they were in the right place, and they were. The
only ways I can get it to run by right clicking the icon and selecting "run
as" and then running it as a user without illegal program protection on (the
checkbox below the selected user) -or- by opening a file that needs that
program to view it, therefore opening the program...weird. Could there be a
registry problem? any help would be kewl...Thanks.

Josh

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I tried that...but it still gives me the same error message -Windows cannot
find
> <path or file>. Make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again.
> to search for a file, click the start button.....etc. - even when I try opening the file directly thru the explorer.

"JC Z." wrote:

> I recently either had a virus or a program that deleted something in either
> the registry or who knows what but after deleting the program that caused the
> problem, Whenever I try to either run a program via the "Run" command prompt
> or by clicking its icon, I get an error message saying "Windows cannot find
> <path or file>. Make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again.
> to search for a file, click the start button.....etc.". It even says this
> error message when programs try to access dll's like rundll32 or something
> else. I checked to make sure they were in the right place, and they were. The
> only ways I can get it to run by right clicking the icon and selecting "run
> as" and then running it as a user without illegal program protection on (the
> checkbox below the selected user) -or- by opening a file that needs that
> program to view it, therefore opening the program...weird. Could there be a
> registry problem? any help would be kewl...Thanks.
>
> Josh