Windows Cannot Find C:\ Blah Blah

m0rph3us · #1 12-09-2004, 09:42 AM

Hi Wondered If Somebody May Be Able To Assist Me With A Great Annoyance?.!

The Story Is......

When I Open A File For Photoshop 9 Wondows Is Telling Me It 'Cannot Find C:\'program location', Please Run Search And See If I Can Find It That Way'. Now Windows Dosn't Have To Find It Im Clicking The File, All It Has To Do IS Bloody Open The Thing.

Now When I Open Photoshop First Then Open The File Via 'File'....'Open File' It Works Perfect.

This Is Also Happening with Bit Tornado And When I Restart My Computer The Windows Install Shield Takes It Upon Itself To Run.....Different Products Everytime May I Add....I've Had Windows Messenger.....Photo Shop..And Various Others.

Please Help As This Is A Great Annoyance.

Thanks.

P.S....I Have Removed Photoshop So I Know This Aint The Problem.

Im Using Windows XP Firewall And Panda Titanium

Viktoria · #2 12-09-2004, 10:45 AM

Presuming you have run AV scans, both on and offline, and done a search for any spyware, perhaps you could check your system files......it sounds as if the system .exe files are not responding.....could be an explorer prob.

Place XP disk in CD ROM....

Start->Run>sfc /scannow

there is a space between sfc and /

Click ok.....

Let it do it's work and see what happens. Please let us know how it goes....

~Viktoria

m0rph3us · #3 12-09-2004, 12:10 PM

Thank You Very Much.....Not Only Did That Sort Out The Problem But It Also Became A Good piece Of Knowledge That I Am Sure I will Use Over And Over Again In The Future.

Again Thank You

Viktoria · #4 12-10-2004, 03:00 AM

m0rph3us, I'm just glad your PC is working well again. Thank you for the reply

~Viktoria

ToolmanQ · #5 02-15-2006, 07:57 AM

I was editing HTML and whenever I would try to test the page I would encounter "windows cannot find c:\*.html" The HTML doc would run after generating this error, however this error would not occur if I had another instance of IE6 open. Running sfc /scannow fixed the issue, but I would like to know why -- was I hijacked by some uber virus? Anyway, thanks for the constructive help in resolving my issue! -- t

nudexp · #6 02-15-2006, 08:22 AM

read this , it might explain it a little better
http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html

Mattyboy86 · #7 06-01-2007, 06:44 PM

Hey, Ya I have a simmilar problem.
I had a worm on my computer, and it would just randomly pop up on my screen. So I downloaded AVG, and it said it removed it, but now when I log on i get a message that says, Windows cannot fin C:/ (file name). You know how I can stop this from hapening on start up, it really slows my computer down on startup. Any ideas??

Thanks A Lot!!

NYC2LA · #8 07-23-2007, 08:00 PM

I get that warning window when I click on an internet shortcut (a shortcut that I created--let's say for Google) that others have complained about:

"Windows cannot find 'http://www.google.com'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click Search."

I have IE and Firefox browser--Firefox is the default.

I have created NEW shortcuts to see if the old ones were corrupted. Still have the problem.
I have done sfc /scannow...still have the problem.
I have done two virus scans, both are clean, and still have problem.
I ran SPYBOT and adaware, still have problem.
I created entirely NEW shortcuts, with NEW sites/pages...still have problem.

I read the website that explains sfc and followed instrcutions to load I386 on my 'puter and reran sfc...still have the problem.
The curious thing is if either IE or Firefox is open, and I click on a shortcut, I do NOT get the message warning. If I swithc the default browser to IE I do not get the warning.

Any comments on what to do now (except throwing 'puter out the window and getting a Mac)?

Thank you ! :-)

retiredprog · #9 01-19-2008, 06:15 PM

Did you ever get your problem fixed. I also have Firefox and IE6 with Firefox as default - getting error on page with IE6.

Thanks

NYC2LA · #10 01-19-2008, 06:42 PM

The problem magically went away. I really do not know for sure what caused it to "fix" itself. I was doing a number of things: cleaning out old files and programs, etc. I had tried the old "click on the icon despite knowing I'll get the warning window..." and the warning window did not come up. Haven't seen it since...and about two weeks ago I got a new Dell with Vista...and have a whole new set of complaints! UGH!