Help!!!!

Hello, I need help in a big way and I am not sure what section of the forum this goes in. My daughter's computer, HP G60 530US, has something really wrong with it. It will not open up any programs, files etc... Evertytime I try it gives the following message

"The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher.

It gives this message no matter what yoou try to open. I have went on line to look for a possible download to fix the problem but no luck. I know that the computer has a 64 bit system because I have the same one. One thing I did notice is that when the message does pop up across the top of the window it says:

C:\Program Files (X86)\Hewlett-Packard then whatever program I am trying to open

Any suggestions before the laptop takes a flight across the room?!?!?

CHIEF2011 said:

Hello, I need help in a big way and I am not sure what section of the forum this goes in. My daughter's computer, HP G60 530US, has something really wrong with it. It will not open up any programs, files etc... Evertytime I try it gives the following message

"The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher.

It gives this message no matter what yoou try to open. I have went on line to look for a possible download to fix the problem but no luck. I know that the computer has a 64 bit system because I have the same one. One thing I did notice is that when the message does pop up across the top of the window it says:

C:\Program Files (X86)\Hewlett-Packard then whatever program I am trying to open

Any suggestions before the laptop takes a flight across the room?!?!?

has it always done this, or did it just start?

Do you have an active anti virus running on the system?

Your .exe files have been associated with something in the HP folder. Fix it using this:

Restore default file associations

CHIEF2011 said:

Hello, I need help in a big way and I am not sure what section of the forum this goes in. My daughter's computer, HP G60 530US, has something really wrong with it. It will not open up any programs, files etc... Evertytime I try it gives the following message

"The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher.

It gives this message no matter what yoou try to open. I have went on line to look for a possible download to fix the problem but no luck. I know that the computer has a 64 bit system because I have the same one. One thing I did notice is that when the message does pop up across the top of the window it says:

C:\Program Files (X86)\Hewlett-Packard then whatever program I am trying to open

Any suggestions before the laptop takes a flight across the room?!?!?

I will suggest you to to backup your important documents and do a clean installation of Windows 7 32bit/64bit and then install a good antivirus and also don't forget to install all the necessary drivers and update it(if the updates are available).
I hope this will work.

multibot said:

CHIEF2011 said:

Hello, I need help in a big way and I am not sure what section of the forum this goes in. My daughter's computer, HP G60 530US, has something really wrong with it. It will not open up any programs, files etc... Evertytime I try it gives the following message

"The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher.

It gives this message no matter what yoou try to open. I have went on line to look for a possible download to fix the problem but no luck. I know that the computer has a 64 bit system because I have the same one. One thing I did notice is that when the message does pop up across the top of the window it says:

C:\Program Files (X86)\Hewlett-Packard then whatever program I am trying to open

Any suggestions before the laptop takes a flight across the room?!?!?

I will suggest you to to backup your important documents and do a clean installation of Windows 7 32bit/64bit and then install a good antivirus and also don't forget to install all the necessary drivers and update it(if the updates are available).
I hope this will work.

Way too drastic at this point. There are many things that can still be done to avoid a reinstall.

A couple of other things you can try. If system restore is running, try restoring to a point before the problem started.

Or run a sfc scan.

SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker