Programs won't open

[Karen Aebischer]

I cannot get a lot of my programs to open. This just
happened this morning. When I right click on the icon, the
top box that usually say's 'Open' now says "Scan for viruses".
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Karen A.

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

I cannot get a lot of my programs to open. This just
happened this morning. When I right click on the icon, the
top box that usually say's 'Open' now says "Scan for viruses".

See "How to Restore the Operating System to a Previous State in
Windows XP" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306084).