1. Try booting in Safe mode and running a complete virus check.
2. Insert your original XP Cd and do a repair (be careful not to do an
install)
3. Hopefully you have a backup of your critical files because if the
above do not work, you may have to do a total reinstall.

John


Wizard <stop.spam@nic.br> wrote in message news:<4176469A.E0AFB5B0@nic.br>...
> There are a couple of viruses oot in the wild that cause this exact
> behavior.
>
> ronevsorg wrote:
> >
> > After having problems trying to update my norton anti virus...I
> > suspected a virus preventing me from doing this....so I downloaded
> > some freeware from AOL...after getting rid of the virus...I was able
> > to update my anti virus and virus definitions...then I rebooted..after
> > windows opened up..a quick message popped up from norton saying "
> > sucessfully deleted ______ virus" (didn't catch WHAT virus) but
> > anyway...a message popped up from windows saying "Couldn't find
> > Setup.EXE"...so now none of my .EXE application'll open up.
> > So whats the deal with this "problem" AND can
> > this be fixed w/o taking it somewhere?
> > Thanking you in advance
> > Chris