Problems with opening programs

Thanks for your replay!

I cant restore the system back to time i made the changes.

What comes to the error messenges, is that are different. If we take Firefox nothing happens when i try to open it, not even a error message appears. If i try with iTunes it says: "The program stopped working". Some other programs such as the standard games on windows (chess and so on) have in some mystic way disappeared.

There have been some long threads on iTunes failing on Vista, so I would save that for last.

For the others, I wonder if it's just a case of missing/corrupt shortcuts. After trying to launch Firefox from a shortcut, press Ctrl + Shift + Esc and see if firefox.exe is listed on the Processes tab. Then browse to C:\Program Files\Mozilla\Firefox and launch Firefox directly from the executable found there, checking the Task Manager again to see if firefox.exe is running. Repeat for each of the games found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games.

Let us know what happens.
John

Hey

Thank for replaying once again

I've tried what you said, without success. If i try to open Firefox from a shortcut or directly from C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox, nothing happens, not even on the Task Manager.
When i go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games all the maps are there, but when i open them, they are empty.

I appreciate your help so far! Please keep it coming
Daniel

If the folder in Program Files is empty, it's empty and gone. Reinstalling seems the way to go.

And I should install Firefox again also, after downloading the latest version from www.mozilla.org. It might be a good idea to delete the Firefox data from your profile data first, to be as clean as possible, but you'll lose your history and cookies and favorites then, so I would only do that if a simple install doesn't help.

Kees

Hey

Thanks for the reply aswell

So you are saying that i should do that with every single program on my computer? There are more than just Firefox that aren't working. Actually all programs but Safari and most of the Windows programs.

But it should be a good start to just start.

Kees

Ok I'm unable to uninstall Firefox :S It says that it might already have been removed, but i can find it in Program Files.

Daniel

I tried what you said, and now Firefox works Thanks a million!!

Daniel

Depends on the cause. If the .exe file is gone, it won't help. If the .exe file is still there but the file association is corrupted, it might help. We don't know, because we can't look inside your system.

Kees

Yeah, but if you read the comments they say something about they had lost their exe files and then it worked after using the fix'.

Daniel

Well i tried the fixes on the link, but it didn't work. So I'll try something else

Daniel

I'd start reinstalling everything now. Somehow, it got rather uninstalled, I'd say.

Kees