On a single vista account, I get "choose the program you want to use to open this file" when I click on any program icon.

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• When you try to open a program, get the area "Choose the program you want to use to open this file".

  When I try and open a program I get the box "choose the program you want to use to open this file. Also, when I try and access any of my icons in my control panel, I get a message saying 'C:\WINDOWS/system32/rundll32.exe. Aplication not found. "

  Uninstall mywebsearch toolbar, Zynga, my fun cards

  Check these then check fix checked. Narrow browsers

  O2 - BHO: (no name) - {5C255C8A-E604-49b4-9D64-90988571CECB} - (no file)

  O3 - Toolbar: (no name) - {CCC7A320-B3CA-4199-B1A6-9F516DD69829} - (no file)

  O4 - HKLM\... \Run: [NeroFilterCheck] C:\WINDOWS\system32\NeroCheck.exe

  O4 - HKLM\... \Run: [HP Software Update] C:\Program HP HP Software Update\HPWuSchd2.exe

  O4 - HKLM\... \Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" - atboottime

  O4 - HKLM\... \Run: [MyWebSearch Plugin] rundll32 C:\PROGRA~1\MYWEBS~1\bar\1.bin\M3PLUGIN. DLL, UPF

  O4 - HKLM\... \Run: [my Web Search Bar scope monitor research] "C:\PROGRA~1\MYWEBS~1\bar\1.bin\m3SrchMn.exe" / m = 2/w/h

  O4 - HKLM\... \Run: [MyWebSearch Email Plugin] C:\PROGRA~1\MYWEBS~1\bar\1.bin\mwsoemon.exe

  O4 - HKLM\... \Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:\Program Files\Fichiers Java Update\jusched.exe"

  O4 - HKLM\... \Run: [adobe Reader Speed Launcher] "C:\Program 9.0\Reader\Reader_sl.exe Adobe."

  O4 - HKLM\... \Run: C:\PROGRA~1\MYFUNC~2\bar\1.bin\c8brmon.exe [MyFunCardsbarIE Browser Plugin Loader]

  O4 - HKLM\... \Run: [TkBellExe] "C:\program files\real\realplayer\update\realsched.exe" - osboot

  O4 - HKLM\... \Run: [KernelFaultCheck] %systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0-k

  O4 - HKCU\... \Run: [BitTorrent DNA] "C:\Program Files\DNA\btdna.exe"

  O4 - HKCU\... \Run: [BitTorrent] "C:\Program Files\BitTorrent\bittorrent.exe".

  O4 - HKCU\... \Run: [MyWebSearch Email Plugin] C:\PROGRA~1\MYWEBS~1\bar\1.bin\mwsoemon.exe

  Then download malwarebytesto day then do a full scan

  You are probably infected by something you downloaded with bittorrent

• Whenever I try to open or run all I get "Choose the program you want to use to open this file" and by default, Adobe Acrobat

  Whenever I try to open or run all I get - choose the program you want to use to open this file and its default Adobe Acrobat and he always answers this file type is not supported.  I can't open anything on my desktop, tried to reinstall Java, and even in my computer it asks me to choose a program to open it. Help!   I don't know what is happening!

  * original title - try to refresh, to run or install anything whatsoever, and it will not open executable files.*

  Hi LisaPisani,

  (1) did you the latest changes on the computer?

  (2) when was the last time it was working fine?

   

  Method 1

  See the Microsoft article below and try the steps mentioned, check if it helps.

  How to change or choose the program that starts when you double-click a file in Windows XP

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/307859

  Method 2

  If the previous step fails then I would suggest that you perform the system restore point when it worked very well and check if it helps.

  How to restore Windows XP to a previous state

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/306084

• Internet explore and google chrome says to choose the program you want to use to open this file

  Original title:

  I can't open my internet explore and google chrome it says to choose the program you want to use to open this file... file? HELP PLZ

  Help me

  Hi Ariep,

  When you run an .exe on a Windows Vista-based computer file, the file can start another program. In addition, the icon of the file .exe may not appear as expected. You can also receive additional errors in the .exe file or the program that starts.

  To resolve this problem, try the steps of: When you run an .exe file on a Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 computer the file may start another program

  Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems can occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you proceed with caution. For added protection, back up the registry before you edit it. Then you can restore the registry if a problem occurs.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/back-up-the-registry

  Please post back with the State of the question.

• Not able to open programs 'open with' appears with the message "choose the program you want to use to open this file."

  Original title: what is savagent.exe.

  I started having trouble opening all my programs...  A 'Open with' box appears only the message "choose the program you want to use to open this file: file: * .exe ', and I only have two choices, either Microsoft Office OneNoteQuick Launcher or Wordpad...  Since none of them are the program that I want, I click on the Cancel button, the popup disappears and the program does not open.  Internet Explorer is the only exception it opens when I click on Cancel.

  I am running Windows Vista on a Dell 1525.  I did a general online search, but the concflicts information too for me make sure my best option.

  Thanks for considering my question.

  Correct me if I misread your message.

  You said open with dialog box appears whenever you try to open a program?

  If so, try this...

  http://forums.techguy.org/Windows-Vista/899995-solved-Open-box-opens-every.html

  Scroll down to the answer given by Phantom010:
  Download and merge the reg. EXEFIX .

  quote...
  Try this registry fix: EXEFIX

  Unzip the patch and extract it. REG file on your desktop. Right click on the REG file and choose Merge. Note that you must be an administrator to apply this hotfix.

  Reset.

• "Choose the program you want to use to open this file" appears every time

  When I click on any program /function, this window opens each time "choose the program you want to use to open this file. For this reason, I am unable to access many programs. No matter what I do it won't go away. Any help is appreciated. - rezé

  Hi Raju,

  This problem could be due to the corrupted on your computer user profile. This corruption can be caused by a virus on the computer, or it could have been corrupted for some other reason.

  
  Method 1: remove the virus could help us solve the problem. You can download Microsoft Safety Scanner and run a full scan to detect any virus/malware infection.
   
  Microsoft safety scanner
   
  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx
   
  Note: The Microsoft Safety Scanner ends 10 days after being downloaded. To restart a scan with the latest definitions of anti-malware, download and run the Microsoft Safety Scanner again.
  Method 2: create a new user account.
  I suggest to create a new user account and check if that helps. Here is the link that will help you to create the following user account: create a user account 
  If the problem is resolved in the new user account, then the old user profile is damaged. Here is the link to repair a damaged user account
   
   
  Method 3: run the Fixit tool below to fix the. EXE file association error.
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950505
   
  Hope this helps you. Let us know anyway!

• Application not found error-choose the program you want to use to open this file

  Soon all the world.

  I really hope that someone will post a reply to my question as soon as possible. I will try to be as descriptive as I could possibly, in order to solve my problems.

  The main problem is that I can't open some, if all the program files, applications on my windows 7, 32-bit laptop. I'm constantnly get application not found error, showing in a small window address, I was trying to do. Whenever I want to open a program, like the Adobe reader, word of microsoft, excel, mozilla firefox, google chrome - basically everthing, a window opens and is telling me this: choose the program you want to use to open this file: file: acad.exe... and recommend me acrobat from adobe program, any program I was trying to enter (in this case autoCAD).

  Cannot open cmd, when I go to system recovery, it says: System Restore could not start. I normally post records in: C and: D sheet music, play music, watch videos and see photos. I found a "hole" not being able to go to the internet via a browser. I discovered it when I went to an online help in some of the trobleshoots. It would open tab in google chrome by itself and then on it, I can browse the internet normally, but only through the said track.

  Currently, the microsoft security essentials performs a custom analysis (: C and: D), because I suspect it is a malware, or some kind of virus. It happened when I tried to download a program from CAD Solidworks 2012 via a site that I'm not sure I'm allowed to mention, that I don't want. Unless it's okay with you :) It begins with a letter t. By the way, I noticed that my: partition D has accumulated 10 GB + more in the space of a few days, because I remember two weeks ago I had close to 70 GB of free space, now it's about 56.3 GB. Curious, because I know that I did nothing so great in this period. Maybe I need to tell you that I get this window, from time to time, when I browse the internet (I never visit suspicious sites, or at least I don't me remember more I visited one in a very long time, like 4-5 months):

  [url=http://canadaalltax.com/z/?f=pjrKrjr7vTw8qi5FrTxXrjr4qdgHqjrHqE%3D%3D&eid=727&hid=15769845847361013151&pid=0&ch=666&rf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boldride.com%2Fbrand%2Fwilliams-racing&s=px.pluginh&r=0.13960388134319002]http://canadaalltax.com/z/?f=pjrKrjr7vTw8qi5FrTxXrjr4qdgHqjrHqE%3D%3D&eid=727&hid=15769845847361013151&pid=0&ch=666&rf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boldride.com%2Fbrand%2Fwilliams-racing&s=px.pluginh&r=0.13960388134319002[/url]

  I found this in my story, be very careful what you do with this link, I don't want that take you anything ;)

  That's on my side, please ask anything and everything, I'll visit this page when I can.

  Good bye!

  P.S. forgot to mention that when I download a program (mozilla Firefox), I can not run it due to: Application not found. I hope I found the right place for it.

  Original title: Windows 7 - Application not found. A big problem or easy-peasy?

  Hello

  Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

  1. What is the complete error message you get when opening a file?
  2. What happens when you try to open the command prompt?
  3. What happens when you try to access the internet by using Internet Explorer?
  4. You did changes to the computer before the show?

  According to the description of problem errors you get "application not found error" and "choose the program you want to use to open this file" and not being is not able to do system restore, it seems that some windows file is corrupted. I also suggest you to post back the results of analysis.

  I would suggest trying the following methods and check if this is useful:

  Method 1:  Run SFC scan and check for corrupted Windows files and violations of integrity.

  Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929833

  Method 2:

  For any question, where his prompting you to select the default program
  Try to set the default values for the program
  Change the programs that Windows uses by default
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-in/Windows/change-default-programs#1TC=Windows-7

  For any question, where you are not able to download and install firefox, download the file and save it and then try to install firefox.

  I hope this helps. Please let us know the results. Feel free to write us again for any help.

• Cannot open .exe programs in XP except MS IE - ask "open with - choose the program you want to use to open this file.

  Any of the My .exe programs such as office, Firefox, Skype can be opened from desktop file icons or programs. Request to the dialog box opens: "open with, choose the program you want to use to open this file" - but only lists MS programs that don't work, or "error - Application not found". Only the program that works is MS IE.

  Looks like your Windows file associations have to dispose. This means that XP is not
  know what to do with the files by looking at the file extension (for example, .exe for executables,
  .doc for MS documents, etc.).

  If you don't have it you, something done for you - most likely malware.

  Go to this site WWW by Doug Knox:

  http://www.dougknox.com/

  On the left, click on the Win XP fixes, file Association fixed and read the instructions at the top of the page.

  Download the EXE File Association Fix on your desktop, unzip the file and apply it by following the instructions at the top of the page, then to restart and test.

  Run the following scans for malware, and then fix any problems:

  Download, install, update and do a full scan with these free malware detection programs:

  Malwarebytes (MMFA): http://malwarebytes.org/
  SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/
  They can be uninstalled later if you wish.

• I can't acess all programs, all I get is chosen the program that you want to use to open this file, nothing works, why is that thank you

  I'm done with xpantspyware on my Windows XP some how I seem to have got rid of it but can not acess my control panel or anything without this arise (chose the program you want to use to open this file) can not get my internet explore have micorsoft essentials there have scan and says no virus detected is not came with any disk so lost here, what I bring to the Dr, or can it be fixed thanks

  You might have a problem with your .exe file associations.  Try the "fix EXE file association" on the link below.  Be sure to read the note at the top of the page regarding the .exe, complications of the association.

  <>http://www.dougknox.com/XP/file_assoc.htm >

  HTH,
  JW

• HELP-I can't open things such as the restoration of the system or the command prompt, etc without being asked to "choose the program you want to use to open this file"

  HELP-I can't open things such as the restoration of the system or the command prompt, etc without being asked to "choose the program you want to use to open this file"

  so boring

  Hello

  Download and run the fixit tool from the link below and check if this solves the problem.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950505

  Kind regards
  Afzal Taher
  Microsoft technical support engineer

• When clicking on the icon browser I get "choose the program you want to use to open this file". Any icon that I choose, I get the same message

  all this happened after I did a "start analysis" by using my Avast Anti Virus.  Now I can't use my anti virus yet because the same message appears.  Any suggestions I'd appreciate

  Its seems not that file associated to open the program appear to be corrupt . Or you might have to perform a repair install or try to create a new user account and see if it works if it does not record the data that you have on a flash drive and transfer it to a new account, and then start to use the new account

  Concerning

  Paul

• Screen that allows you to choose which program you want to use to open a file type with

  No error code, just a question.  I want to reset my screen ' open the file with "always ask instead of always open with"a particular program.  I used to get a screen that says "Windows can perform the same action whenever you insert a disk or connect a device with this kind of file" and below list the different selections (Windows Media Player, Dell Power DVD, etc.).  Now, most is opened automatically by a program and I want to reset it to always ask.  Arrived at a screen awhile back which allowed me to define each type of file type (audio, video, and mixed content etc.), but can't figure out how to get it reset everything to always ask.

  Learned a lot of new stuff!

• Whenever I go to open a program, I get a window asking you what program I want to use to open this file.

  I don't know it's just a setting that needs to be changed back (Famicom)

  Click Start, run and type Command.com
  Type "c:\windows\regedit.exe"

  Fix association .exe here:
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe
  Exefile (by default)

  Goto:
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Exefile\Shell\Open\Command
  The (default) value the following * exactly as shown below *.

  "%1" %*

  Close Regedit.exe

  Article number: 555067 - cannot open EXE files
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/555067
  
  Let us know if that helps.

  Marilyn

• Which user account you want to use to run this program?

  That fairly recently, when I click to start Firefox, and just before it actually opens, I has the following screen:

  "Which user account do you want to use to run this program?

  I did some internet research and it seems as if many people have encountered this same problem.

  What is the cause, is it dangerous for my computer, and how can I get rid of this message?

  Make sure that Firefox is not set to run as administrator.

  Right click on the desktop Firefox shortcut and choose "Properties".

  Make sure that all items are disabled in the tab "Compatibility" in the Properties window.

  • Privilege level: "Run this program as Administrator" should not be selected
  • "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" must not be selected

  Also check the firefox.exe program properties in the program Firefox (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\) folder.

• Which account you want to use to run this program?

  A week ago, just after installation of Microsoft Update, when I start my computer, a box came who said: run as.  Which account you want to use to run this program? [x] current [of user\Owner] protect my computer and data from unauthorized program activity. This option can prevent computer viruses from harming your computer or personal data, BUT selecting it might cause the program to function properly. Current use is already checked, and my options are to check I want is not protected, or cancel. I tried all the options, or just close the box. What is the devil? Why should I see it every time I start my computer? And, more importantly, why would I want to when, "selecting risk the program work correctly?" How can I get rid of this annoying box, since I already have Kaspersky as a guard dog? Thanks, Tess

  No, you are not condemned.

  To make the warning "diagnostic mode" Begone, re - run msconfig and select the radio to "Normal startup" button (cela re - automatically checks the Java update box, as well as all the other boxes you might get UN-ticked).

  The way you described your original message is a bit confusing.  Messages request 'which account you want to use' - what are the choices presented to you?

  Run as.  Which account you want to use to run this program? [x] current [of user\Owner]

  Is the account that you sign normally called "owner"?

  You have an x in the box in front of "Current user" - If the current user IS 'Owner' what does the other box reference?  It may be a better representation of the pop - up:

  Run as
  Which account you want to use to run this program?
  [] Current user / owner
  [] Protect my computer and data from unauthorized program activity. This option can prevent computer
  viruses from harming your computer or personal data, BUT selecting it can cause the program to
  work correctly.

  That is, we really give you a choice of the accounts, but only the current account or anything.

  When you go to control panel > user accounts, is the account that you are connected to a "Computer administrator" or "limited account"?

  You need to do some detective work more:

  • In the Startup tab, run msconfig and uncheck ALL items.  If the "RunAs" message does not come to the top, you know that one of these elements is the culprit.  Selectively, double-check items (you can do as a group to save time re-boot) and re-start until you determine what startup item causes the error.  Once you have identified the startup item that is causing the problem, post back with his name and I will try to help you determine what to do about it.
  • The "RunAs" message continues even with all uncontrolled startup items, you going to dig deeper.  Reset things to normal by selecting the option "Normal startup" button and follow the steps.  I'll look at other things that start when Windows starts and see if I can suggest the next steps.
  1. Download Autoruns http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx --> here
  2. Extract the files (right click on the zip file downloaded file and choose "extract all")
  3. Run Autoruns by double clicking on autoruns.exe (not autorunsC.exe).
  4. When the scan is complete, click file > save and save AutoRuns.arn in a place where you can find it later
  5. Download AutoRuns.arn on your SkyDrive (go to https://skydrive.live.com/ and log in with the same name of user and password that allows you to connect to ask questions here)
  6. Right click on the file downloaded and select 'Sharing' then 'Get link' and 'display only '.  Copy the link and post it in your next reply here.  See http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/skydrive/share-file-folder