Can any one help

Ok so i get this when i want to open something instead of it opening I get a thing saying "Choose the program you want to use to open this file".

Then i can choose from "Adobe Reader 8.1" "Internet Explorer" Notepad" "uTorrent" "Windows Media Player" "WordPad" "Media Center" "Paint" "Windows Calendar" and "Windows Photo Gallery"

Help PLZ.

Well what are you opening? If its something you want to read, do it in Wordpard or maybe adobe.

No like things that run such as um Paint Veoh Tv ect. not things like Documents and for some reason the Internet.

If its paint... run it in paint? Or just find the program you'd want to use manually.

Are you trying to open something with a file extension not recognized by your PC?

-Modgers

Here's some extensions for the ones you said, but do tell what the file extension is

.pdf = Adobe Reader

.torrent = uTorrent

.html/.htm/.php/.xml/etc. = Internet Explorer

.wmv/.mp3/.aac/etc. = Windows Media Player

there's more but I'm tired of typing these

to know what the file extension is, right click, and select properties on the file

the file extension will be listed under "Type of File: WinRAR Archive (.rar)"

the WinRAR is an example

.wmv/.mp3/.aac/etc. = Windows Media Player

What's an .etc file?

-Modgers

From what I've been told from him, ist random, doesn't matter what file type. Said problems started today, tryed to get him to do a system restore to yesterday or the day before, but when he tried to open that program it asked what program to run it. When we tried to see if he had system restore activated through the system setup, none of the tabs changed. Short of fully restarting his computer with the boot disks (which are awol) I don't know where else to direct him. He's runnin vista btw. So thats my synopsis of his problem. Some config prolly was changed or possible virus is my diagnosis.

Ya and thanks again for your help :]

Were you looking at porn???? I think some one got a porn bug in their system:)

Should be no reason it would just start asking for what program you want to us. When that pops up just means there has not been a program ever installed on your computer that would know how to open or use that extension.