to be on the safe side, try an on-line virus scan.
one is available at
http://www.ravantivirus.com
im not sure what happened, but for no reason everytime i try to open exe. files and a number of others and MDOS wondow comes up then disappears and im not sure what to do, ive tried system restore so dont give that idea
And if it helps a have a dell with windows XP

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