Certain apps won't work unless...

do they not run from shortcuts or when you double click them in Explorer, or both?
 
I told you that it is a shot in the dark, and I have no answer for that. But it is easy enough to look under your file associations to see that.

When I right click on an exe, the first choice in my menu is "Open" in bold indicating that it is ther double click default. And underneath that is Run As.

If this menu pops up automatically, it could mean that you have configured your mouse for a left handed person.

What happens if you use alt-tab to switch to them? On one system I use through remote desktop, it loadfs an extra language bar onto the start menu which eventually hides the active application area as well as system tray and you cannot use it to navigate to these apps.

What applications do this? Are they perhaps minimizing to your system tray on start up and your system tray is not showing?
 
Gothan said:
Sounds to me like there is something funny on the profiles of your pc, something might have screwed them up, unfortunately, I have no solution except this one : format c: /q

But I am pretty sure online they have a more practical solution
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Thats my normal fix, works every time :D
 
ernstn said:
I told you that it is a shot in the dark, and I have no answer for that. But it is easy enough to look under your file associations to see that.

When I right click on an exe, the first choice in my menu is "Open" in bold indicating that it is ther double click default. And underneath that is Run As.

If this menu pops up automatically, it could mean that you have configured your mouse for a left handed person.

What happens if you use alt-tab to switch to them? On one system I use through remote desktop, it loadfs an extra language bar onto the start menu which eventually hides the active application area as well as system tray and you cannot use it to navigate to these apps.

What applications do this? Are they perhaps minimizing to your system tray on start up and your system tray is not showing?
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His associations aren't the problem (IMO) as the process is visible in his Task Manager. Your other questions are valid tho.
 
ernstn said:
I told you that it is a shot in the dark, and I have no answer for that. But it is easy enough to look under your file associations to see that.

When I right click on an exe, the first choice in my menu is "Open" in bold indicating that it is ther double click default. And underneath that is Run As.

What happens if you use alt-tab to switch to them? On one system I use through remote desktop, it loadfs an extra language bar onto the start menu which eventually hides the active application area as well as system tray and you cannot use it to navigate to these apps.

What applications do this? Are they perhaps minimizing to your system tray on start up and your system tray is not showing?
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when i right-click, it says "Open" and then "Run as". they do not load onto the system tray. when i choose "Run as", they open normally.
 
Have you by any chance enabled a second desktop under your screen settings?

If you only have one monitor your programs might be appearing on your second desktop but you can't see them cos you might only have one monitor.

Go to Display Properties, settings, and check to see if there is a second monitor enabled. If it is,click on it and then uncheck the box that says Extend my windows desktop onto this monitor.

If it's not that, then are you running any other Virtual Desktop software? maybe Microsoft's virtual desktop through Tweakui or Power Toys?

Also go into your firewall settings and see what is check and unchecked there.

lastly, create a new profile and move all your info to the new profile, then log into it and delete the old profile.

that's all I can think of now :D
 
I have had this problem with Creative live 5.1 software - when you run a prog its running - but you can't see it or use it. Fixed it by uninstalling the software and drivers and re-installing from scratch.
 
Garyvdh said:
Have you by any chance enabled a second desktop under your screen settings?

If you only have one monitor your programs might be appearing on your second desktop but you can't see them cos you might only have one monitor.

Go to Display Properties, settings, and check to see if there is a second monitor enabled. If it is,click on it and then uncheck the box that says Extend my windows desktop onto this monitor.

If it's not that, then are you running any other Virtual Desktop software? maybe Microsoft's virtual desktop through Tweakui or Power Toys?

Also go into your firewall settings and see what is check and unchecked there.

lastly, create a new profile and move all your info to the new profile, then log into it and delete the old profile.

that's all I can think of now :D
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thanks. as far as i know, i'm not running a 2nd desktop.
 
re-install the particular software - somethings got fubarrd - prolly thanks to a windows update or such
 
I know you running xp,but i seem to get a lot of those residing in the memory deals,Firefox.exe cant work with my vista.Yahoo messenger sometimes dont work and just sits there in the memory.
SOLUTION:
disable your firewall,i mean really disable everything.
THere is a virus that attacks the exe of all your apps.My avg did not pick it up,But on vista it did( i dual boot 4 times a day).
i had to download a special remover to fix and destroy the virus(win32 virus..etc)
 
get xp to see all hidden files and folders and check your program files to see if there are strange files in all your apps that look outta da place
 
Have you messed with file permissions lately? Last time my PC pulled stunts like that the programs could not access some files.

It would also explain why "Run-as" works.
 
try restoring your system to a previous date...
Use a good AV cleaner like nod32..

If still nothing...stop making noise and reinstall... wont take u long. :)
 
dablakmark8 said:
I know you running xp,but i seem to get a lot of those residing in the memory deals,Firefox.exe cant work with my vista.Yahoo messenger sometimes dont work and just sits there in the memory.
SOLUTION:
disable your firewall,i mean really disable everything.
THere is a virus that attacks the exe of all your apps.My avg did not pick it up,But on vista it did( i dual boot 4 times a day).
i had to download a special remover to fix and destroy the virus(win32 virus..etc)
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i ran AVG, spybot search and destroy, ad aware 2007, AVG anti-spyware...all picked up nothing. i doubt it's a virus. i think it's some kind of permission thing. last night, when i logged off and back on, those apps that weren't working, were suddenly working again. but when i start my pc up normally, some of them doesn't work. i ran my pc in safe mode and all the apps were working fine.
 
dablakmark8 said:
get xp to see all hidden files and folders and check your program files to see if there are strange files in all your apps that look outta da place
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ya, but it's a bit hard cos something might seem weird but it could be part of the app or the DLL's.
 
HavocXphere said:
Have you messed with file permissions lately? Last time my PC pulled stunts like that the programs could not access some files.

It would also explain why "Run-as" works.
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i agree, i do think some permission thing on my profile has gone haywire, but i don't know what. been diagnosing and diagnosing all the time.
 
///MoH said:
try restoring your system to a previous date...
Use a good AV cleaner like nod32..

If still nothing...stop making noise and reinstall... wont take u long. :)
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yeah i'm gonna use NOD32 maybe today. i don't use system restore. re-install...naaa...got too many apps to install.
 
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