follow up to 'I get a 'File not found' message when I try to start any program'
Friday, December 10, 2004 at 11:30 pm
Posted by Les Andersen
(2 messages posted)
I have a question about I
get a 'File not found' message when I try to start any program:
I've read all the responses in this section and have tried the fixes. But I'm still
stuck.
3 Monday's back, I got a virus which was very similar to vbs.gaggle.E. With the
help of McAfee's Stinger, Symantec's Knowledge Base and BitDefender's home version,
I've fixed most of the impacts from this virus. But I am left with 2 problems:
1) Some .exe files will not start. Using Explorer to start them directly or using
the Start menu, I get an error, where path2exe is the full path to the executible
(eg. d:\lib\games\checkers.exe):
Cannot find path2exe. Windows needs this file to run path2exe.
Or, for an associated file (like .xls for Excel), the message changes slightly as
follows, where path2doc is the full path to the associated file:
Cannot find path2exe. Windows needs this file to run path2doc.
2) Cannot browse shares on the network. I can see the other computer's listed, but
cannot drill down any further. I get an error, where machine_name is the other computer's
name:
\\machine_name is not accessible.
The network path was not found.
From the other machine, I can browse back to the server as normal. I cannot ping
in both directions.
I'm hoping solving 1) will also fix 2).
So if you have any additional ideas on what could be causing these problems, I would
be very pleased to hear them.
Thanks in advance.
Les
PS. This is a really cool site. I'm glad I found it (even if I don't get an answer).
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re: follow up to 'I get a 'File not found' message when I try to start any program'
Saturday, December 11, 2004 at 6:13 am
Posted by DEX
(11739 messages posted)
Les
Sounds like the virus is still on the machine and running in the backround.
The file name path2exe is not a win2k file.
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hope this helps τΏτ
On Friday, December 10, 2004 at 11:30 pm, Les Andersen wrote:
>I have a question about I
>get a 'File not found' message when I try to start any program:
>
>
>I've read all the responses in this section and have tried the fixes. But I'm still
>stuck.
>
>3 Monday's back, I got a virus which was very similar to vbs.gaggle.E. With the
>help of McAfee's Stinger, Symantec's Knowledge Base and BitDefender's home version,
>I've fixed most of the impacts from this virus. But I am left with 2 problems:
>
>1) Some .exe files will not start. Using Explorer to start them directly or using
>the Start menu, I get an error, where path2exe is the full path to the executible
>(eg. d:\lib\games\checkers.exe):
>
>Cannot find path2exe. Windows needs this file to run path2exe.
>
>Or, for an associated file (like .xls for Excel), the message changes slightly as
>follows, where path2doc is the full path to the associated file:
>
>Cannot find path2exe. Windows needs this file to run path2doc.
>
>
>2) Cannot browse shares on the network. I can see the other computer's listed,
but
>cannot drill down any further. I get an error, where machine_name is the other
computer's
>name:
>
>\\machine_name is not accessible.
>The network path was not found.
>
>From the other machine, I can browse back to the server as normal. I cannot ping
>in both directions.
>
>
>I'm hoping solving 1) will also fix 2).
>
>So if you have any additional ideas on what could be causing these problems, I would
>be very pleased to hear them.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Les
>
>
>PS. This is a really cool site. I'm glad I found it (even if I don't get an answer).
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