Sorry am new to this but wondering if anyone can help? I have a Sony Vaio that have had major problems with recently virus etc. Have got it completely wiped, now runs Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3, installed McAfee & RegCure. Pentium 4 CPU 3.06GHz 512MB RAM. Everything has been just fine for a few days but when i turned it on yesterday virtually everything has the same icon (White box with thick blue top stripe) windows update, remote assistance, calculator, command prompt, NOTEPAD, paint, volume control, wordpad, etc, etc, etc??? What on earth is the problem? Any help would be very much appreciated. ThanksHm... as a test, create a new account, and see if the icons come back, or stay broken.The thing is thats another thing thats happened. For first few days after wipe when turning on it got to a choice page admin or me, now it just asks for a password so UNABLE to get to admin user it doesnt let you change user. Just asks for password for me. Thanks considering this install is only a few days old, it might be easier just to try again. Unless you really want to debug everything...Would love to de-bug everything but wouldnt know where to start. As for 'trying' again do you mean WIPING again? This aint an option cost £90 took back several times. Not going againand get that RegCure off your pc. It's not really that great. I'd be using registryfix or Advanced SystemCare by Iobit if you're to be fixing your registry but in all honesty, leave that registry alone unless it's causing you problems.

Deleting an incorrect item in registry can cause pc to stop working so you know ....i agree get regcure out of your pc

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