Can any one help

[Dracula]

Rolf sorry no porn for me

[Dark Torcher]

What's an .etc file?

 

-Modgers

 

 

hey, i said etc. not .etc

 

anyways, he may have just reset all the file extensions, since the purpose of an extension is tell the os which program to open that certain file with

hence .txt makes vista run the file in notepad

[Modgers1]

I know, it was supposed to be a joke, but it failed.

 

-Modgers

[*Queen VenomousFate*]

I know, it was supposed to be a joke, but it failed.

 

-Modgers

 

Wait, What Was Supposed To Be A Joke, I Saw No Joke...

[Dark Torcher]

*he* was the joke

[Danny G]

Were you looking at porn???? I think some one got a porn bug in their system:)

 

Should be no reason it would just start asking for what program you want to us. When that pops up just means there has not been a program ever installed on your computer that would know how to open or use that extension.

 

Hahahaha. Yeah, it was a porn bug

[SpikedRocker]

anyways, he may have just reset all the file extensions, since the purpose of an extension is tell the os which program to open that certain file with

hence .txt makes vista run the file in notepad

 

I think you are on to something there...is there a config file for like the basic windows programs?

[Dark Torcher]

well not like cs:s config, but yes, there is, but no one usually deletes it since they dont know where it is, so maybe a malicious file did it, but we need *feedback*

you cant diagnose without enough info about the problem

if he really did reset it, all the files should be asking what program they should be opened with, but this might take an half an hour at most to replace everything back to normal

 

if system restore does not fix it for you, you should try the original vista install cd to repair all vista system files and drivers back to their original working state, then update via Windows Update to the recent versions

 

but yes, please reply Dracula

[Dracula]

I still have no clue what did it because i dont mess with non game files because imafraid of messing it up and im lookin for those CD's

Internet

And ya thtas the weird thing some stuff still like opens Documents, control pannel ,internet, Recylcle bin, my Antivurs thing, Steam, and other things like the above.

 

But things like hell even Paint, Spy Sweeper, Xfire stuff like that

[Dark Torcher]

ok, so tell us what the file extension is

you can find it by right-clicking on the file and selecting properties

the file extension will be in parentheses and will be listed next to "Type of File:"