could anyone shed some light on a little problem i am having with my PC? yesterday i fired her up (to check out my new 1meg broadband connection) and she started loading up ad-aware 6 as it does on every start up but crashed! i restarted it and it seemed to fire up ok but then i noticed all my shortcuts on my desktop were displayed with an icon i did'nt recognise. i clicked on 1 of these shortcuts to see what happened and it just came up with a messege telling me the file was'nt recognised by windows! i thought this was very strange so investigater further and found all shortcut in my start menu had changed to this icon too! ive been through everything and i cant get any programs to work (including system restore) except by right clicking a shortcut and choosing wich program to open the file with. the list includes explorer, media player notebook and things like that. i realy have no idea what has gone on and would be very gratefull if someone could help me out with this as re-installing windows meens losing alot of work, pictures and such! look forward to hearing from anyone.
regards karlos
regards karlos