I'm not really sure what happened, but all my programs will not work on my computer. Most show the extensions as .lnk and when trying to OPEN a program it says it cannot be found. Using Open With and searching out the program's .EXE gets a few of them to work but you have to do so everytime you want to use the program. GOING to the actual .exe file and double clicking it makes it fade out gray and it will not work. No icon images are working either.

I looked this up and found it this means that my exe's are BROKEN somehow or some type of problem with the registry. I did a virus scan with McAfee and a spyware scan with AdAware, a few things were found but cleaned or removed. Still nothing works  

I guess what I want to know is how do I fix this? How can I get my programs running correctly again?

Thanks in ADVANCE for any help or insight anyone can give me.Thank you thank you!! Thanks a million times   Everything is working now and I can stop pulling out my hair. Thank you