start.exe messed up

justsomeguy · Post by **justsomeguy** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 12:56 am

i recently tried running an exe and windows gave me a message that start.exe could not be found. now whenever i open a program or exe windows explorer somes up. how do i fix this? (yes i realize i break my computer alot)

Raptor · Post by **Raptor** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 1:02 am

I'm going to assume that the app you installed was using CYG-WIN emulation and was actually a UNIX based app ported to Windows. It probably didn't remove the registry entry pointing to start.exe start.exe is not a windows default program, but a command line 3rd party utility. Sounds like time to run it down with regedit, AFTER you back up your registry.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 1:14 am

dude you seem to be having a lot of OS problems. Maybe a suggestion would be to format C: and freshly install?

justsomeguy · Post by **justsomeguy** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 1:25 am

i would run regedit, but i cant! i cant run anything. it just opens my computer c drive.

dude you seem to be having a lot of OS problems. Maybe a suggestion would be to format C: and freshly install?

well actually its my dads really old comp, im building him a new one soon. but im trying to get this one to at least work a little bit longer

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 1:29 am

sometimes the older ones these days are just too much effort to fix

justsomeguy · Post by **justsomeguy** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 2:15 am

im thinking that if i can change the location it points to the start.exe file it'll work, cause for some reason it goes to explorer.exe. i looked at the registry on another hard drive and there isnt anywhere obvious where you can change the directory

EDIT:i got it working! what happened was was that ealier i deleted a winocx32.exe file from startup (it was running like 30 copies of itself and really slowing down the comp (i have no idea what the file was)) and the comp went a lot faster. but for some reason that file was in registry to run exes or something. so i got into regedit by renaming it regedit.com and did a search for the file and deleted the key. all works now, thanks for your help

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:45 pm

Scan for viruses to be on the safe side!

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 6:16 pm

how old is this computer? if its 95 ill just be shocked at how much effort u put into makin a windos 95 work. heh