re: Can't open files of type 'Application'
Friday, January 10, 2003 at 6:12 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Parimal
(1 messages posted)
Hi, Bob Sturtevant,
I've tried your solution and it worked at first instance.
Thanks a lot man.
Parimal.
On Friday, June 8, 2001 at 7:21 am, Bobstur wrote:
>Those are symptoms of a virus although I don't understand how installing Norton
AV
>would have initiated it. So I assume you can't run the Norton AV. You might want
>to hunt around Norton's AV Center.
>One way some of these things work is to modify the exefile key in the registry
>which prevents .exe files from running. If you want to try modifying the key you
>can rename the registry editor, regedit.exe, to regedit.com and it will run as a
>.com file. Then go to the following key:
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command
>and edit the Default data by deleting what's there and adding "%1" %*
>(that's quote,%,one,quote,space,%,asterisk). Then you should be able to run your
>AV program to see what that comes up with.
>Bob Sturtevant
> http://home.adelphia.net/~bobstur/
>
>Please let us know what works.
>
>On Fri, 8 Jun, 2001 - 5:23, Mike wrote:
>
>After installing Norton AV s'ware, and latest def. files, I now
>can't execute or launch any 'programs'. I get 'ueko.exe
>missing - Program needed to open files of type 'application'
>is missing! Never heard of this.. can't find any reference to
>ueko.exe anywhere... Reboot does launch windows, but for each
>and every program that is supposed to start, I get this error.
>I also can't execute any program.. including windows explorer,
>or any other program.. HELP!! This is a windows 98 system.
>
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