Dont know what to call it

[T-Chai]

One of my friends had a problem today
All his computer desktop shortcut icon do not work and same with some icon in the startup menu.
All the shortcut icon show up as an icon that would display the computer would not reconise it.
Basically when he click the icon it would promp him with the open with menu

His computer
E-machine Win xp service pack 1
ATI Radeon

Help please

[GX1_Man]

How about some details on what happened prior to this, the computer particulars and a read here:

http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1149948530

Can you do a system restore? Why no SP2?

[Dead_reckon]

without sp2, your probably firewall less, and firewall less = very very very bad

[T-Chai]

Firewalless really even there is a firewall software running behide it  :-?
Well let go back to the subject
System restore icon cant be detect by a computer so i dont remember where the .ink file is located because you need it to open shortcuts files i think!

I dont know much when the computer is broken

None of the icon would work and how would i run a scann

[GX1_Man]

System restore info:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306084/

[T-Chai]

any icon in the startup menu or desktop or a shorcut from somewhere els it does not work
I cant run system restore because clicking on the icon will promp me with open with form

Thank Any other surgestion GX1_Man

[T-Chai]

i have now found a way to system restore by going on control panel, performance and matainece
i did the system restore but still now hope the icons on the desktop firstly came up as normall but later (2 mins)
the icons then turned back to applications without now way of running them as it cant find the file to open with
please help

[GX1_Man]

If it were me I would just reinstall. Is that a possibility?

[T-Chai]

Yes i was going to do that but his DVD drive doesnt work and his reinstallation dics is a DVD dics
So we are stuck in a big hole where nothing works.
Is there a way to renew it?

[Rob Pomeroy]

Just swap out the DVD drive with any old DVD or CD drive.  (Preferably a fast one.)

GX1_Man here can do that blindfolded, with both hands tied behind his back, whilst being pursued by killer bees, his body smeared in honey, with a volcano erupting in the distant background and an earthquake happening in the immediate vicinity, in five seconds or less.

Simple.

[T-Chai]

LOL Sh**
He is amazing  

[Rob Pomeroy]

Hands off, I saw him first.


ROTFLMAO.

[T-Chai]

could this be sum type of system32 error