Hi, I recently downloaded a program called AVI MOVIE PLAYER and somehow managed to open somthing on it to do with windows,now it has taken over windows whenever i trie to open up anything it opens this avi player,most the icons on my desktop have all changed to AVI PLAYER and anything to do with windows. Ive tried deleting it through control panel but again it just opens the player,even system restore has changed to avi player.Any help would be apreciated,
Thanks

Go To > control panel > click add & remove programs
click windows media player.

Click set program access & defaults > click custom
check box windows media player > check enable access
and click ok

The avi player is probably in your startup.

Do you want to remove this program from your computer?

Start>Run box type: msconfig

Click Startup tab and delete the program

Windows will shut down and reboot, see if that gets rid of it.

Hi Winnipeg thanks for your reply,the problem is i cannot get on to "add & remove programs" because when i click on it, all it does is opens the avi player screen, also i have tried to remove with "msconfig" but the same happens again as soon as i press enter it opens the player ?

Hi griff

Ok, so does this happen with every program you try to open, I don't know what you can do and not do with windows, do you have a desktop or just the avi movie player on the screen, are you saying it doesn't matter what you click the avi player appears on the screen.

I went to the HyPlay website, is that where you downloaded the player from, you know this software is beta and the author is still working out the bugs in the player. Their was no place on the site that had instructions for uninstalling this program and I spent 45 minutes and their was nothing about uninstalling this program. When I download a free\share ware program(very seldom) I check to this if it comes with a uninstaller or I don't download it and the features in this one don't have one.

Which version of HyPlay Avi Move Player(if this is the one you downloaded) you don't say, the newest version: 1.2.0326.0. When I checked the f.a.q. here is what the author said "First of all, Hyplay is a FREE BETA. You have to know that Beta means I do my best to make it robust, but there are bugs left. The author swears that their is no spyware or adware in this program(I don't know I don't have access to his code) I don't trust free/share ware programs, although their are some good ones Avg, Ad-Aware, Spybot, just to name a few, but you will notice the good ones come with a uninstaller.

According to the website their have been 1,237,678 downloads for the HyPlay Avi Movie Player.

If you go to Start > Run box type: regedit can you do this? or does the avi player popup when you press Ok, if you can't do anything on your machine it seems like you have a real nasty piece of spyware or a virus, did you post a hijack log, so the experts could take a look at and advise you on what to do and how to get rid of what you've got.

hi winnipeg,

I have now managed to delete avi movie player,but now when when i click on any of my desktop programs a box appears saying "open with" which has a list of all my programs in.also I have tried doing a hijack log but when I try to open it , a box appears saying c:windows\system32\rundll32.exe..............."app lication not found",this also comes up when i try to click on add and remove programs.I have tryed installing a fresh copy of windows over my old one but it hasn't made any difference.

Hi griff;

Sounds like you might of picked up something nasty.

Check to see if you have rundll32.exe file in C:\WINDOWS\system32 the file should be 32.5KB
When you open explorer > Tools > Folder options > view > make sure the box is checked to show hidden files and folders.

If it is not in system32 folder, You may have a virus or Rundll32.exe is damaged or missing.

Put your Xp disk in your CD-ROM

Go To Run box type: cmd

When the DOS screen opens at the flashing cursor type this command.

expand <CD-ROM:>\i386\rundll32.ex_ %Systemroot%\rundll32.exe hit enter

where the <CD-ROM:> is your CD-ROM drive letter, if your CD-ROM drive is D put a D, if it's E, put a E, or whatever letter the drive is.
you don't put or use these <> or what drive is called "CD-ROM

Shut down and restart Windows

hi winnipeg

I have checked the folders and RUNDLL32 is there 33KB,but next to it is the icon for avi movie player.I have also typed the command you said into cmd but it just comes up with THE SYSTEM CANNOT FIND THE PATH SPECIFIED.

by the way thanks for your help.

Hi griff;

Sounds like you got something nasty on your system, have you tried running any online scans.

http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx

http://www.pandasoftware.com/

When you run whichever ones you want, I would post the results in the spyware forum and they could advise you on what to do.

RUNDLL32 on my system (size 32.5KB)(33,280 bytes)(size on disk 64.0KB)
(65,536 bytes)

I'm not an expert on this like the moderators in the spyware forum, but that's probably whats stopping you from running these applications.

Run the scans, see what they show.