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Cannot run exe files - association broken after remove virus

JesseJames_2 · 2011-06-15 21:46:57

Tried to fix mother in laws PC It's XP Home Had a false microsoft anti virus application. Removed the process with process explorer. But it came back after a few minutes. So looked in regedit for "TCD.exe" and removed the 3 entries by blanking the data. However the 3 entries appeared to create the association with exe…

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JesseJames_2 Posts: 328 Forumite

23 June 2011 at 10:06PM

I ended up reinstalling XP Home fully to fix that explorer slowdown.
All AOK

Tried SFC /scanonce - no luck
Tried a repair install to SP3 - no luck.
To SP0 - no luck
To SP2 - no luck
To SP3 - no luck

Threw in the towel and did a clean install

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