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Geek Help Needed
Ok so here's the story. Someone fucked up our financial machine pretty badly. She was installing Norton and she opened up a pretty beefy program during installation and blam! nothing works now. All the icons are missing and all programs come up with an error "file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action, create an association for this option in the control panel". I try to go to control panel.. it just wants to make a shortcut.
I try to run a sfc /scannow nothing. I can't get into cmd. So I go to Safe Mode with Command Prompt.. and it won't run that either. I try to get into system restore using %systemroot%\system32\restore\rstui.exe and well it just comes up with a blank white box. So I try to run a repair on the existing installation.. nothing. Same thing occurs.
Ok so I'm fed up at this point. I finally get into regedit using Safe Mode with Command prompt. Under HHKEY_LOCALMACHINE_ /software/microsoft/windowsNT/winlogon and the explorer.exe key is correct. Then I try to go HHKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /.exe and it won't let me do anything. It just comes up with an error stating :Error Editing Value: Cannot Edit: Error reading the value's contents. So now I'm lost I don't know where to go from here. I do have backups of all the stuff but it will take forever to get the machine back how it was. I'm trying to avoid formatting at all costs.
Windows XP Pro SP 2
Any ideas?? Any help is mucho mucho mucho appreciated.
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