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Laptop tale of woe - Set associations?


durtydurty
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Had a virus on my lappy called Vista anti virus or internet security.

Very real looking scan commences and finds lots of bad stuff and gets you to pay for it and robs you I'm guessing.

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Did a couple of things that were recommended on various websites and deleted some reg keys, which Ive done before with no problems. Now.....this time all my icons on my desktop wont run and comes up with a set association warning, tried setting associations to no avail.

If you right click the icon and run as admin its runs fine.

Tried system restore but the button doesn't want to work!

Help, any ideas?

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Do you have recovery discs and backups? I think I'd be formatting at this stage.

I've never been 100% happy with recovery tools and anti-spyware/AV scans when stuff like this happens. Thankfully, it's only been 2 or 3 times over many years. But I usually just go with the 100% safe option of wiping and reinstalling the OS.

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