Urgent help needed!!!

busenbust

All my applications were turned into zip files. I cant use system restore because thats also a zip file.

Simply no correlation; possible malware infection then?

Luffy321

I thinks its a virus. But i cant use any antivirus or even download a new anitvirus because i cant use any programs.

dogmaryxx

Safe Mode with Networking ?

fiddiwebb

So everything is zipped?

Well I suppose you will have planty of room on your computer now.

surfer_blue

it could possibly be an infection

or could it be possible that you mistakenly clicked something to turn all your files into zip files when you had winzip installed? if this is the case, could you not re install winzip and extract them all again? this may at least let you open some of your zip files, if you can then get system restore to work, you can go back to before you installed winzip?

this MAY help vistax64.com/tutorials/65254-zip-file-support-restore (www at the front end of that link and html at the end)

Luffy321

.... Fixed it

Basically my .exe registry got corrupted. Download a .exefix file and merged it to my registry and it was sorted in a matter of 3 seconds.

It was lucky uninstalling winzip opened up IE or i would of been stuck on desktop.

busenbust

Luffy321 wrote: »

.... Fixed it

Basically my .exe registry got corrupted. Download a .exefix file and merged it to my registry and it was sorted in a matter of 3 seconds.

It was lucky uninstalling winzip opened up IE or i would of been stuck on desktop.

:huh: and :shocked:

dogmaryxx

Luffy321 wrote: »

I thinks its a virus. But i cant use any antivirus or even download a new anitvirus because i cant use any programs.

Luffy321 wrote: »

.... Fixed it

Basically my .exe registry got corrupted. Download a .exefix file and merged it to my registry and it was sorted in a matter of 3 seconds.

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Miracles do happen then.

enigma52

Luffy321 wrote: »

.... Fixed it

Basically my .exe registry got corrupted. Download a .exefix file and merged it to my registry and it was sorted in a matter of 3 seconds.

It was lucky uninstalling winzip opened up IE or i would of been stuck on desktop.

what .exe file was this then just in case somebody else gets this problem?

Luffy321

http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/File-association-fixes-for-Windows-Vista.html

Has a bunch of file association fixes for vista only