exe's wont work

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serena

hi
i run a computer center and have windows 2000 server on
all my machines. latest technologies are taught at my
place. but my problem is someone deletes some file or i
don't know what. but none of the exe's work. there is no
trace of what could go wrong. there are no viruses , i
have the latest version of norton. for example, through
the start/programs the links are not available. if i run
some program like 'command prompt' through the task
manager then it gives me the 'open with dialog box' and i
have to browse through the whole path eg.'
c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe', once the full path is
retrieved then it opens the command prompt. this is the
same case with all the other exe's. my worst case is i
have to keep on installing the os on the machines
frequently.

what could be the reason, please help me with some
solution. is there any way to track or locate the file or
what could lead into such a problem. please help!
thanks
serena
 
Is it possible that someone is changing your path statements??

At a command prompt type SET.
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\joeuser>set
You will see something like the following.
Path=C:\Program Files\Windows Resource
Kits\Tools\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDO
WS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH

Try to compare the path entry w/ a working machine...

IBTerry [MSFT]
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