Windows 10: what do you want to open this with? on %APPDATA% on run?

As the title says I recently installed Acronis true image, upon reboot i got the black screen of death, no bios ..nothing... i had to strip the GPU out - blow the dust off and it started up but this time 2 problems so farall my torrents say ERROR CANT OPEN TORRENT FILE even though they are all there in the same directory still and the drive letters are the same as before

and when i open run and type %APPDATA% I get the WHAT DO YOU WANT TO OPEN WITH THIS? and explorer isnt in the list



can anyone help? thanks

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Message on startup: What do you want to use to open this file .4dc5456 ?

Is the location of the file specified?

Open Task Manager and look at startup programs.

Anything suspicious?

Anything you don't remember installing?

Don

 

Message on startup: What do you want to use to open this file .4dc5456 ?

I have run Nortons, McAfee & McAfee Stinger 64

Did you properly remove and cləan all prior rəaltime
anti-virus products?

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When you uninstalled it, did you also run their removal tool, found here:

<<https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/kb20080710133834EN_EndUserProfile_en_us?entsrc=redirect_pubweb&product=home&pvid=f-home&version=1>>


Add or Remove doens't get rid of everything Norton, and it's possible that left-behind-entries are mucking up your system.

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Same as above, Did you uninstall the McAfee application AND THEN download run the McAfee Consumer Products Rəmoval Tool

This document explains how to remove and reinstall McAfee Consumer products using the McAfee Consumer Products Removal tool.

Run their removal tool, found here:

<<http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=TS101331>>

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AppRemover now part of
OESIS Endpoint Assessment Tool (which can scan for and remove
multiple anti-malware products):

http://www.appremover.com/access-appremover-through-oesis-endpoint-assessment-tool

*http://www2.opswat.com/appremover-in-oesis

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After running the above tools, if you can start the computer in Safe Mode it may be worth a try to do a System Restore to a time before

this issue began.

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Question - Go to Security and Maintenance, Look in Security and see what program is listed under Virus Protection

In the search box enter security and maintenance then select Security and Maintenance

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What is the file? Probably a bad torrent.

 

was corrupted, having to re-add 150 torrents, also %APPDATA% doesnt work on windows 10 if you have 'enable hidden files' on???

 

@snadge seems to have marked this thread 'Solved' now. What was it in the end?

 

Again, what program do you want to run? That string you are asking about, needs a program name to have it run. You will always get that menu if you do not tell Windows what program that you want to run.

 

You have something really screwed up within Windows, that you can't run %APPDATA% from the Run-dialog reveals this issue.

What is causing this and how to fix it, is beyond my expertise. Easiest would be to start from a clean slate.



What you could try though is, create a new user account and test if things like %APPDATA% works from that account. Then that proves that your main user account registry is corrupted.

 

APPDATA is an environment variable containing the path to a folder. Running %APPDATA% opens File Explorer at that folder. For a default install that would be C:\Users\<yourname>\AppData\Roaming

Sounds like something, malware perhaps, may have changed the content of your APPDATA. To see what yours is actually set to, open a command prompt and type:

SET APPDATA

This is what you should see, what does yours say?





Another possibility is that malware has changed the default action for opening File Explorer. Either way, I'd recommend a scan with AdwCleaner as a matter of urgency.

AdwCleaner - Free Adware Cleaner & Removal Tool


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