Oh God What Have I done :( HELP !

[Kheldar]

no doubt someone here can put me out of my misery

just installing a mod and add on expansion pack for sim city 4.

somehow i've managed to associate .exe files with adobe acrobat !

i cannot uninstall sim city / reinstall it let alone run it.

it wont run up an IE window either cos what comes up ? yes a bloody adobe acrobat window complaining about iexplore.exe not a supported file type.



cant run any exe at all !

and its not my pc either its the wife's  so i am gonna be in trouble if i cannot sort it quick !

[Rik]

Have you got a restore point you could roll back to?

If not, can you open explorer? If so, click on Tools > Folder Options > File types, and see if you can see the file association, if you can, try restoring it to the default. Of course, it may have affected more than one file type.

[Kheldar]

rik you're a star.

ie crashed ! and would not re open but could get into control panel to get intot the file types bit to reset .exe to being 'application'





cheers a lot

i wont be in anymore trouble now than usual !

[Rik]

Glad that worked, my next words were going to include "re-install".

[J!ll]

Well that's saved him a trip to the garage for some flowers! 

[J!ll]

rik you're a star.

ie crashed ! and would not re open but could get into control panel to get intot the file types bit to reset .exe to being 'application'





cheers a lot


i wont be in anymore trouble now than usual !

Rik's star

[Kheldar]

Well that's saved him a trip to the garage for some flowers! 

more likely a trip to the doctors ! 

[J!ll]

Don't touch things that don't belong to you

[Inactive]

and its not my pc either its the wife's  so i am gonna be in trouble if i cannot sort it quick !

Recipe for disaster.. 

[J!ll]

He will learn 

[Kheldar]

i was able to tell Rach that the pc screwed up but my skills allowed me to fix it 

[Rik]

Given that the MS patches were out yesterday, you could have blamed them...  8)

[Kheldar]

Given that the MS patches were out yesterday, you could have blamed them...  8)

they were ?

i did notice the pc kept wanting me to reboot for an update ! 

i'll keep that excuse in my back pocket Rik for next time 

[Rik]

It can prove very useful.

Did you manage to re-install the Sim City stuff?

[Kheldar]

Yeah i got Sim City re-installed. after rebooting the pc cos the .exe file was locked somehow and did not free up after resetting the file type properly it needed a reboot.

then the Rush Hour expansion pack.

and it had not deleted my saved cities so quite a result.

but with a lot of cussing and swearing i have to admit 

[Rik]

but with a lot of cussing and swearing i have to admit 

That's called computing.

It's worth setting a restore point before installing any new software, just in case. It can prove to be a get out of jail free card.

[Lance]

I tend to do a full disk image myself

[Rik]

Not everyone is like us, Lance. I do too, I was just suggesting the simplest option.

[Kheldar]

That's called computing.

It's worth setting a restore point before installing any new software, just in case. It can prove to be a get out of jail free card.

sounds a good idea rik.

is it easy to do for a simpleton like me ?

i mean i've only been here a little while but you already know the limits of my skills 

I tend to do a full disk image myself

there's always one 

[Rik]

sounds a good idea rik.

is it easy to do for a simpleton like me ?

Very, just find the System Restore utility (I have a shortcut to it on the desktop), fire it up and choose "Create a restore point". It will chunter for a few seconds, and that's it. If you need to restore, fire the utility up again, then choose "Restore my computer to an earlier time", select the restore point from the calendar and you're done. If you can't find Syestem restore in your menu structure (I don't know where it would be as I don't use XP menus) then use explorer to navigate to C:\Windows\System32\Restore\rstrui.exe.

there's always one 

Actually, there's two.

[Kheldar]

Very, just find the System Restore utility (I have a shortcut to it on the desktop), fire it up and choose "Create a restore point". It will chunter for a few seconds, and that's it. If you need to restore, fire the utility up again, then choose "Restore my computer to an earlier time", select the restore point from the calendar and you're done. If you can't find Syestem restore in your menu structure (I don't know where it would be as I don't use XP menus) then use explorer to navigate to C:\Windows\System32\Restore\rstrui.exe.

Actually, there's two.

kewl i'll take a look tonite when i drive back down the jolly old m4 and m5 !


yeah there are 2 but only 1 actually used more techy jargon like full disk image 

[Rik]

yeah there are 2 but only 1 actually used more techy jargon like full disk image 

I was saving it for later! 

[RobMc]

If you can't find System restore in your menu structure (I don't know where it would be as I don't use XP menus)

Start
  All Programs
    Accessories
      System Tools
        System Restore



Rob.

[Inactive]

Or;

Help and Support Centre;

Second Green Arrow from the bottom of list.. 

[Rik]

Thanks, guys. For myself, I prefer just to have a direct shortcut available.