PLEASE HELP! everything I attempt to open says "not a valid Win32 application"?

Question

I am unable to access the restore menu the normal way, and just about every other thing I try is getting the "not a valid Win 32 apllication" message. I can't get to any of my desktop icons, my contorl pannel, download any type of files etc... AND YES, I HAVE TRIED TO DOWNLOAD ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAMS, it won't let me do that either. I'm geeting the same message. Does anyone know how I can restore it to an earlier date any other way?

Answer 1

Try to do a System Restore from Safe Mode:



To get into Safe Mode:



1. Log out and reboot your machine.

2. When the machine starts the reboot sequence, press the F8 key repeatedly.

3. Select Safe Mode from the resulting menu.

4. The machine will continue booting, but the Windows desktop will look different. You won't be able to see the Internet, for instance. You may have to log in as Administrator to delete the bad files. Administrator often has no password.

5. When you're finished, log out and reboot back into normal mode.



Good luck. You're going to need it.

Answer 2

enter the computer in safemode by rebooting the machine and pressing F8 if your set up is AmI this willnot allow for graphics and some thing like normal windows does

then follow steps of :

restore piont choose the erlier time you want then finish it will outomatically restore after finishing if still there is missing files from windows booting files like .EXE files repair it by using your available OS windows similar to the one u have

ok

Answer 3

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