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SonyuserNYC - 09 May 2008 21:30 GMT

I have a 5 year old Sony desktop running Windows XP. The computer has a
partitioned hard drive and the C drive filled up to near capacity. I have
been trying to take off or move programs, but none of the utilities work
except Windows Explorer. When I look for files such as cleanmgr they are in
their correct directories but appear as txt files.

I thought originally the files would not work because of lack of processing
capacity, but now I am wondering if this is a virus. Can anyone help?

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Mark L. Ferguson - 10 May 2008 03:39 GMT

.EXE files always open with Notepad or any other application:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/exeasso.htm

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> I have a 5 year old Sony desktop running Windows XP. The computer has a
> partitioned hard drive and the C drive filled up to near capacity. I have
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> processing
> capacity, but now I am wondering if this is a virus. Can anyone help?

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