Recent content by davidburd

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    programs won't launch

    I learned more about the problem. The failure to launch issue is affecting MS Word as well as many other programs besides browsers. It seems to be a missing registry entry for .EXE files. I found a fix that corrects the registry error but the problem comes back after a bit. My best guess is...
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    programs won't launch

    Suddenly, Firefox and all other browsers won't launch, and neither will Adobe Reader. I'm using Windows XP SP3. As of Friday (three days ago at this point) I can't get Firefox to launch. It starts to load but then freezes. Or it loads just fine but freezes after I visit a site or open a new...