my friend bought ad-aware and installed adwatch with it and had it running all good for about 1 month. then he gave me a call and said that all the icons on his desktop are different pictures, and whenever he would try to open em, windows would tell him that it cant find the program to open the file...etc. and he told me he adwatch popped up for something telling him to either except or reject the regestry process i think. and he press reject. so im guessing it was an import registry file. every program in the start menu dont work either, and we cant run system restore. is there anyway to recover the registry or any fix for this. thanks alot.

Those problems don't seem to be adwatch.

i know for sure its adaware. cause my friend pressed the reject button and when he restarted his computer the next time the icons were messed up. this also happened to my cousin. this there any fix or could i try anything?

Hi mindgames19,

Try the fixes set out in this Topic: Missing .exe and .lnk file associations

It is a long topic, but contains the info that you should need.

Also, note the recommended Ad-Watch settings - (ie: should be set to Active (green tick), not Automatic and "Lock executable file associations" should be de-selected (red cross).

Regards,

Spike