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need help, my computer is hurt

Post 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?
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Post 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?
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Post by cwallace »

Uninstall it and install AVG...

Solves all your problems...

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Post 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.
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Post by cwallace »

Vista is VERY good at fixing itself...:)

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Post by deek »

Granted, you need a terabyte of RAM for it to work properly:)
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Post 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...;)

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Post by deek »

True...but I so love running old hardware...

But that's a "me" issue, not a Microsoft issue:)
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