Help, please! Message «Windows cannot open...» »

Everytime I try and open a program I get a message saying "Windows cannot open this file...". Windows needs to know what program created it... "I tried to do a system restore, but the same message has popped up...

Help, please
Karen

Please "a plan."

If you mean that you get this error when you double-click an exe to launch an application, go to http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm and read the explanations at the top.  Then download and use the EXE File Association Fix and the difficulty of Association LNK (shortcut) file.

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