Failed Services?

[Thunder]

Hey, a friend of mine has windows vista home premium, all the accounts on the computer work except one, when this one account logs in, whenever you try and open something it says what would you like to open this program with, then when you choose it it says application not found.

When he tries to open internet explorer it says what would you like to open this with, choose internet explorer from the box and it says the application cannot be found, when you look at the processes, svchost isn't there like it normally is, nothing works, what can I do? Thanks.

[heebyjeebys]

try re-associating the ext .exe with application.

control panel > folder options (it goes something like that - i'm not at a windows machine atm)