Comments on: Windows XP explorer.exe missing or corrupt

By: Karl with a K

Karl with a K — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:35:43 +0000

Thanks for this fix.
So far it is working. Unfortunately the problem happened at the worst time possible and I failed an exam. But! My computer is now fixed and I didn’t have to get it re-imaged.

Thanks!

By: Di

Di — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:06:33 +0000

Thank you so much, you have no idea how much you saved me, after 6 hours of doing everything including reinstalling windows, I found this site. It was fixed in a matter of seconds. If only I found this site sooner.

By: manish bansal

manish bansal — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:40:55 +0000

Thank you…

I had a same problem in window XP now it works fine….

Thank You…

By: arrythmia

arrythmia — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:35:49 +0000

This post pointed me in the correct direction and I was able to solve the same problem. Just one more thing, after I had done the regedit part, explorer still did not start immediately so I deleted explorer.exe in C:\WINDOWS, then tried running explorer again from task manager and it worked like a charm.

Thanks.

By: steve h

steve h — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:05:56 +0000

Thanks guys works a treat

By: Dave F

Dave F — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:56:23 +0000

Thanks – you nailed it. The Registry key was set to the windows movie maker. And oddly enough, CA’s virus scan (when the machine was last usable) trapped movie maker as having a virus. Didn’t put two and two together until I saw the reg key with the movie maker program in it as a value.

THANKS!
df

By: James Laux

James Laux — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:47:11 +0000

thanks – a quick fix to the problem

By: pradeep k

pradeep k — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:57:57 +0000

Thank you very much.
I had a same problem with windows xp. After askinkg login name & password, i was able to see only the wallpaper, no desktop & taskbar.
I was able to start outllok thru new task by using taskmanager.

Regards & Thanks
Pradeep K

By: Dug~

Dug~ — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:12:37 +0000

Blam, after 4 hours and another install of SP3, FIXO did
it in seconds. Wish I would of found this first.
That disc is going in the repair bag.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:08 +0000

Hi, Guys

I had a virus which was removed by Mcaffe, but now when I start my PC I get the blank screen ( actually I get the usual background phot I applied but no desk top icons or start tool bar etc )- only Task Manager seems to work. I re-installed XP ( repaired, not a full installation ) and it’s still the same.

I am not very technical, but so how can I download any of the fixes to my PC ? Any advice gratfully recieved !

Best Regards

Stuart