It sounds like your file associations are completely messed up.  Thats basically 
what is in the view/folder options/file types part of explorer where you set what 
program opens certain types of files.

You could fix them all manually ... a registry restore should fix it as well.

The control panel part concerns me however because I simply did not think you could 
change the association for those.

The registry restore should be treated as a last resort .. and windows only keeps 
a limited number of copies .. so unless you decide you want to do the restore, I 
would leave the computer off unless someone posts another fix.

To do the registry restore you need be in dos mode (f8 at system start, command prompt 
option) and type scanreg /restore







On Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 1:16 pm, E.Kiely wrote:

>Hi all,

>

>I have a Win98 se machine and on the desktop none of the Shortcuts will work

>

>Also when i go into Control Panel i cant open any of the icons the message that 
appears 

>is:

>

>The "Open With box" appears and asks me which program i want to use to open the 
file 

>"Rundll32.exe"

>

>Also  some of the icons on the desktop and in most folders are a white icon with 

>the Windows logo on it 

>

>Any help would be great

>

>>Thanks in advance

>

>Ekiely 

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