Ridiculous Vista Error

foodfightr

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I just activated the guest account. I went to log on for the first time and it said please wait while it sets up the desktop. After a few minutes of waiting I hit CTRL+ALT+DEL to bring up the taskmanager and I saw like 50 windows open that say:

"Windows cannot open this file."
Select a program to open this file with.

Its .exe files-- even links arent working! What is going on?

Same thing happens now every time I log on... basically all the startup files can't be executed.

EDIT: Ok... so I set the guest account to belong to the "USERS" group only and it worked fine. Then I restored it to the "GUESTS" group where it belongs and every single startup item has that problem again.
 

bsobel

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The guest account exists for legacy reasons, it's not intended to be enabled. If you need a 'guest' account, create a normal account and let user use that one.