Hi Jeremy,
You still haven't answered my reply. What makes you think explorer.exe is
missing or corrupt? Explorer.exe is not all that simple to delete. And it
is located in Windows not System32. Again I think you are confusing
system32.exe with Explorer.exe.
If you can, do a control, alt, delete.
End process on Explorer.exe then File/Run: Explorer.exe. If all goes well,
reboot after checking the path below.
Here, make sure Explorer.exe reads for Shell.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
As for Explorer.exe take it out of My Documents. Is best to stick to the
same thread, Jeremy.
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