I tried to install Sygate Personal Firewall on NT4(sp6). The installation failed. No idea why, because (I'm guessing here) Sygate seems to have blocked a logfile Dr Watson claimed it was creating. Whatever happened, the error log wasn't created.
When I tried to uninstall Sygate, I discovered the following:
- Double clicking a program icon on the desktop opens the program in Notepad.
- Trying to run a program via the start button menus does the same.
- Start|Run works fine.
- Right clicking a desktop icon and selecting "open" works fine.
- I can get into Control Panel, but anything I click in there loads into Notepad. *
- .bat files run fine from the desktop. I haven't tested .cmd yet.
- Files associated with programs appear to work normally from the desktop (the connected app runs and loads the file).
- Because of the Control Panel problem, I couldn't use "install/remove programs", and no other method of uninstalling was available. Result: I had to do a manual uninstall to get rid of Sygate.
There are a few remnants Regedit says it can't delete (keys under the name LEGACY_SYGATE), and undoubtedly a few things I've missed. Does anyone know if these registry entries could be causing the .exe problem, and if so, how can I get rid of them? If they are not the cause, what could be, and how might I fix it?
I would just tear my hair out, but the reason I want a firewall installed is that I already tore it out while combatting a heap of viruses and other junk that got onto my hard drives a couple of weeks ago :(
TIA.