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re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes'
Tuesday, March 11, 2003 at 6:44 am
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Posted by ips11 (2 messages posted)

I had a similar problem recently and found that I had a trojan virus. What you need to do is the following. Hit Ctrl - Alt - Del to bring up the task manager. Start a new task, click browse and navigate to your System32 directory. In that directory there may be a file named "explorer.exe". If there is, delete it and reboot. This should solve your problem. The true explorer.exe file resides in the Winnt directory and you don't want to delete that file. So, make sure you're in the System32 directory before deleting the file.

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 9:55 pm, nengi wrote:
>I am running windows 2000 on my machine and for no apparent reason I lost my icons,
>taskbar the whole shmear. I tried the comments posted here ie bringing up the task
>manager and running exporer. Everytime I do that I get the error message "System
>Error, unable to open dialog" I am not quite sure how to proceed, any help will be
>greatly appreciated

Written in response to:: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (nengi: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 9:55 pm)

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re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (J Waggenspack: Wednesday, July 2, 2003 at 9:05 am)

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Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (nengi: Tue, Jan 14, 2003, 9:55 pm)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (NiRuS: Wed, Jan 15, 2003, 1:22 am)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (ips11: Tue, Mar 11, 2003, 6:44 am)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (J Waggenspack: Wed, Jul 2, 2003, 9:05 am)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (gklein: Mon, Aug 4, 2003, 7:27 pm)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Ronnie: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 12:14 pm)

system error ''unable to open dialog'' (foster: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 12:28 pm)

re: system error ''unable to open dialog'' (melon: Thu, Oct 23, 2003, 11:55 am)

re: system error ''unable to open dialog'' (Eusebio Herrera Gutiérrez: Mon, Oct 27, 2003, 12:24 pm)

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