Run as?

All of a sudden every time I try and open any kind of program windows brings up a dialogue box asking me which user I wan to use to run the program (I only have one user though) and I cant figure out where I turn this box off and it is really annoying.

 

Strange if there is only you using computer,dont know if this page will be of any use,cant hurt to have a look though....http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsxp/fastuserswitching.aspx

 

Yeah I tried all the optoins I could think of in the control panel and nothing seems to turn this stupid thing off, it's really weird cause it seemed to enable itself.

 

nobodies got any Idea's

 

Try this: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer

Then create a new DWORD value named "HideRunAsVerb" without quotes, and assign it a value of 1.

 

OK i'm confused??? wis this in the registstry or somthing?

 

Download this zip file and unzip it:
http://tinyurl.com/376gh

Double click XP_RunAsShortcutFix.exe to run the utility. This utility re-creates the MayChangeDefaultMenu subkey in:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\shellex

 

Yeah that didn't seem to help the problem, thanks for tryin though, I'm thinking about a reformat now to get rid of it ****** deal.

 

BTW rude I dont seem to have an explorer directory in the "polices" folder in my registry so not exxactly sure where i should put the DWORD in?

 

Home or Pro? If Pro, we should check policy settings before that format.

 

take a look at this thread:
http://forums.techguy.org/t217878.html

I had similar problems as yours. See if the symtoms are similar, and try to solutions suggested. It worked for me thxs to Elvandil and rude

 

Thanks alot guys it was the .EXE associtation as said in the other post, everything seems to be going find

cheers guys

 

Glad to hear it. I would probably have opted for a reinstallation for myself by now, but I'm a lot more deliberate with other people's machines . This is one for the books.