Please Help!

[PzN34]

While making changes to my registry the other day in order to remove a virus from my hard drive, I added a the wrong command in HKEY-CLASSES_ROOT/exefile/shell/open/command accidently. Now whenever I attempt to open an application on Windows (i.e, AOL, Microsoft Works, Napster) it wont allow me to do so, and gives the error message that Windows cant find the file which is needed to open applications. I tried to go back into REGEDIT but since that itself is an application, it wont allow me to do so. What should I do in order to correct this problem? Is there any way to fix it via MS-DOS mode or will I have to reinstall my system or something? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[reghakr]

That's exactly what the KAK virus does.

To restore the EXE association, open Notepad and copy and paste the following between the lines and save the file as exefix.reg. Double-click on the file to merge the contents into the registry. Since Notepad won't open on your machine, you'll have to do it on another machine and transfer it to your by floppy disk.

=========BEGIN CUT==================
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe]
"Content Type"="application/x-msdownload"
@="exefile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\ShellEx]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\ShellEx\{00021500-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
@="{88C9E8DE-8D28-11D3-8F3C-00A0249EABF4}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile]
"EditFlags"=hex:d8,07,00,00
@="Application"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open]
@=""
"EditFlags"=hex:00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command]
@="\"%1\" %*"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHan dlers]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHan dlers\{86F19A00-42A0-1069-A2E9-08002B30309D}]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\DefaultIcon]
@="%1"
============END CUT=====================

reghakr

[PzN34]

Thank you for you assistance :)

[reghakr]

No problem, hope it worked.

reghakr