New
#1
Problem starting any .exe files on desktop
Hi there, this is my first post on this website but I found the people with a similar problem to mine were helped in a professional manner, and my problem still hasn't been resolved from a fix mentioned on this forum.
The problem started a couple weeks ago, seemingly out of the blue, whereby I could not start .exe files from my desktop. It seems to be mainly games that are affected.
Bit of extra info, I did download a file from a supposedly trusted website, however this proved problematic and installed adware on my computer, which I believe was removed but sometimes "Ads Removal 1.0.0" comes up as an extension in my Chrome browser, even after I delete it from there. However this adware problem came about a week before this newer problem with all of my .exe files, so I'm hesitant to link the two. I have also run several different anti malware and virus scanning programs since.
Bit MORE extra info, every time I attempted to start a game from its .exe shortcut, an event pops up in event viewer saying "Multimedia Class Scheduler Service entered a running state", leading me to believe this may be a problem with that service.
I'm happy to provide any more information you might need to help me with this problem!
Thanks in advance,
N.
EDIT
The event viewer logs change almost each time I double click the .exe files, sometimes they'll say Multimedia Class Scheduler, sometimes Windows Error Reporting Service entered a running/stopped state, sometimes the Application Experience, and other times the WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto Discovery Service.
All very confusing stuff to me!
Last edited by Nsvyas; 23 Dec 2013 at 13:12. Reason: Update