Open not working/ .exe disabled

Cogitosus

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Hi folks,

I know this is a common problem & this was caused by a worm. It's on a Packard Bell running Win 7 Ultimate.

I killed the virus by running an AVG command line scan booted from a USB stick. The PC is now clean, but the 'Open' command does not work. Right-click followed by 'Run' does.

I've tried the usual stuff such as allocating .exe to exefile & it accepts the command; likewise the registry entry for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Exefile\ seems to be correctly set to "%1"%*, but it still won't work. I'm obviously missing something and any help would be appreciated.

Oh, one small problem; the machine belongs to a Dutch girl. Almost everything is in Dutch & I don't have a word of Dutch.

Thanks in advance.
 

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