Rachealkani

An anti-virus program won't find a virus on a shortcut, so it's either a false positive or the file exists somewhere (just not where the shortcut says it dies).

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down the bottom of the start bas, next to the clock, there should be a little button with 'ger' or 'deu' written on it. click it and select 'english' if the button isnt there, then it has a german version of windows on it. you will have to reinstall an english version :-( you might ber able to download a patch to change it to english from the microsoft website, but im not sure.