Just use the Quicktime player application.
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NoiseDesign - Mar 06, 2010 5:01:55 pm PST #13220 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
tommyrot - Mar 06, 2010 5:05:06 pm PST #13221 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Dammit, why didn't I think of that?
Thanks.
Vortex - Mar 06, 2010 5:19:50 pm PST #13222 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
umm, so my computer went apeshit this morning, telling me that I had a virus. I ran anti spyware, it found 15 items (mostly tracking cookies) and everything seemed to be fine. Unfortunately, a bunch of programs don't work anymore, like Firefox. Anything with an .exe string won't run.
Oddly, Explorer seems to work fine. Thoughts?
Dana - Mar 06, 2010 5:21:52 pm PST #13223 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Run the virus scanner and malware scanner in safe mode, for a start.
Vortex - Mar 06, 2010 5:25:25 pm PST #13224 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Neither will run. Everytime I try to open something, I get an error message that says "Open with", but .exe files dont have anything to open with!
DCJensen - Mar 06, 2010 7:09:13 pm PST #13225 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
From the internets:
First Thing to Try
Before playing with the registry try this first. Open the File Types dialog from any Explorer window -- use My Documents or My Computer (Tools | Folder Options | File Types Tab). Scroll down to where .EXE would be in the alphabetical order and make certain .EXE is not there (if it is, then edit it there by changing the association to Application). Finally, select the New button, type in EXE for the extension and select the Advanced button. From the list pick "Application."
While not shown on the picture above there should be a "Restore" button you can click. If so, use that and, hopefully, this should cure the problem (thanks to forum member diginono for finding and posting this solution). The Restore button only shows up when there is a problem on the system.
If this works but there is still a problem with LNK files then scroll down to the end of this FAQ for a solution to that.
If this did not work, then you have to play with the registry.
There are other places that have still more fixes not of the registry editing, including using a restore point, etc.
Vortex - Mar 07, 2010 6:54:08 am PST #13226 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
what if there's no file types tab? I'm in vista.
Ginger - Mar 07, 2010 7:05:27 am PST #13227 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Have you tried going back to a restore point?
javachik - Mar 07, 2010 9:33:43 am PST #13228 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
Has anyone here jailbroken/unlocked their iPhone? Specifically to travel abraid and switch out SIMs?
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2010 10:52:06 am PST #13229 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does anyone know if it's possible to video conference call with Skype? Doesn't look so...but I figured it was worth asking here.