Error Executing Program! (5)

[pauley13]

Hello there,

I hope someone can help me out on this one.
I've been recently hit by Rootkit TDL3 virus which I finally managed to clear. What a b**** that was.

Things seemed to get back to normal, except I just noticed one thing. Whenever I try to execute an EXE file I get the "Error Executing Program! (5)" error. This only seems to happen certain file types, primarily EXE and HLP files, but no problems running all other extensions.

It seems there's been some kind of a corruption in the registry - but what...?

I tried re-installing TC to the latest version. No change.
Tried a few other would-be solutions too, but no joy.

Now... the weird thing is that if I go to Explorer - the same files run just fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help in advance

Paul

[ghisler(Author)]

Error 5 is "access denied". Apparently you start TC in a different way than Explorer, or you use 64-bit Windows. Explorer is a 64-bit program so it may launch the files differently than TC (32 bit).

[pauley13]

Thanks for your reply!

Am still not much wiser... It worked right up until a few days ago (before the virus). Seemingly the same TC version. I'm not aware of any changes I made to the system other than what I mentioned (removing the virus - which could be a lot, but outside of my control, lol).

I use Windows XP, SR3 - plain vanilla, isn't it...?

[ghisler(Author)]

Are you able to open the files/run the programs via right click menu or Shift+F10? This uses the Explorer method.

[pauley13]

Yes! It seems if I run it with right-click or sh**-f10 it does indeed work. Also, I noticed that SOME exe files WILL run the normal way. I can't establish a pattern. Maybe one in 10 or so, some older some newer - but they seem to run. But 9 out of 10 of the other exe's won't run - except through Explorer. It does seem to be some kind of a permissions error, but I'm not sure how to address that...
Thanks for your attention!!
best
paul

[ghisler(Author)]

Is there some pattern, e.g. the ones which do not run contain spaces or accents?

[pauley13]

Hmm... I will TRY to establish a pattern. I was reflecting on it and sort of scanning files and couldn't observe anything obvious. I will do it more methodically now and let you know.
Thanks!!
p

[pauley13]

Hmm.. Ok - a pattern of sorts is emerging.
I can't run ANYTHING on my C drive.
But, I can sort-of run stuff on my other drives.
By "sort of" I mean that it starts the program, asks if I want to run it (which is a bit unusual, because normally it only asks that if I run from a ZIP file) - it says "open file security warning" and then it gives me the option to run or not.

But then (at the same time) it ALSO pops up the error message "error executing program! (5)"

It does look like something with permissions, doesn't it? (and now I only have to find out how to fix THAT, lol)

thanks,
p

[ghisler(Author)]

Actually it does look like a permissions problem. Please press Alt+Enter on such a file which you cannot open and check its permissions, then compare that with a file which you can open. You may need to take ownership of the file and/or give everyone rights to it.

[pauley13]

Big thanks for still not forgetting me!
Yep, this sounds like a plan. I'll let you know if there should be any other problems. Take care & thx again p

[larshn]

I get the "Error executing program! (5)" error too when duble clicking a MP3 file (to play it in windows media player)

The error only occur when I use "Run as Administrator" with Win 7 (64 bit)

I really hope this will be fixed

[ghisler(Author)]

Could it be that the player was already running, started with normal user rights? Then Windows tries to send the mp3 to the already running player via DDE. That fails because no messages can be sent between processes with different user rights.

[cavagnaro]

Hi,
I'm having the same error message but with code 29, is there any error list available?
What happens to me is trying to open a Word, Excel, etc. document, the Word opens but can't open the document itself. Go to TC and redo the same operation (doble click the document) and it works now as Word is already open...
Any suggestions?

Thanks

[MVV]

You may use this tool to get descriptions of Windows errors, also you may find them in Internet (e.g. here). Your error sounds strange...

[cavagnaro]

Thanks...seems a IO issue...HD faulty maybe...well at least have something to work on now