Windows Explorer won't display

[Guest]

My Windows Explorer (Not IE) suddendly stopped displaying

I double-click the Icon, get a momentary hourglass, then nothing. The shortcut properties allow for Normal Window, Maximized, and Minimized startup. All produce the same results

The only indication anywhere that Explorer is running is that it appears under Task Manager. If I repeatedly click the icon, Task Manager will display multiple instances of the program, but still no display

This just suddenly started last night with no warning, and no amount of rebooting, powering off and on, etc seems to help

Any suggestions

Thanx

Tom Pont

 

[roger]

Hi,

My Windows Explorer (Not IE) suddendly stopped displaying.

I double-click the Icon, get a momentary hourglass, then nothing. The shortcut properties allow for Normal Window, Maximized, and Minimized startup. All produce the same results.

The only indication anywhere that Explorer is running is that it appears under Task Manager. If I repeatedly click the icon, Task Manager will display multiple instances of the program, but still no display.

This just suddenly started last night with no warning, and no amount of rebooting, powering off and on, etc seems to help.

Any suggestions?

Thanx:

Perform an online scan for viruses at any of these sites:
Trend Micro HouseCall:
http://housecall.antivirus.com/pc_housecall/

Panda Active Scan:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan/

RAV AntiVirus Online Virus Scan
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/

BitDefender Free Online Virus Scan
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/license.php


Perform a scan looking for malware using updated ad-aware and spybot:
Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Spybot S&D
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download


Good luck

 

[Guest]

Already tried. No luck. Any other ideas? This is really starting to get frustrating

I even tried copying in another copy of the Explorer.exe file from another computer. Still the same results

Thanx

To

 

[roger]

Hi Tom,

Let's try this: Go to Control Panel > Internet Options > Advanced
Options tab and disable third-party browser extensions.

If this works you may have to use BHODemon to disable the offending
Browser Helper Objects:
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm

Good luck

 

[Guest]

Done, done, and done. Still no success

Thanx for the suggestions. I don't suppose you'd have another

Thanx

Tom Ponta

 

[roger]

Hi Tom,

Let's try a last step.

Go to Start > Run > cmd
put your XP CD on the CD ROM
type
sfc /scannow (press enter) (there's a space between the c and the
forward slash)
This program replaces any damaged or missing system files.
You might also want to know the locations of the folders
Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386 and Windows\System32\dllcache.

Good luck