re: Windows Explorer will not open Friday, February 6, 2004 at 2:46 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Mark (1809 messages posted) You probably have some corrupted files or corrupted registry. Go to Start, run, type sfc /scannow ,click OK. Insert your W2K CD. The program will check for corrupted files and reinstall them. Unfortunately it does not provide a report. If that does not work then try repair using the Win2K CD. You will need to change the booting order of your computer. When you start up your computer, press the Delete key (sometimes it is F2 or F5) and a BIOS screen will appear. There you will be able to change the booting sequence to CDROM being first. Save and reboot. Watch closely as "Boot from CDROM" will come up quickly and allow you no more than 5 seconds to "Hit the key to Boot from CDROM". When you hit a key it will boot from the Win2k CD. The CD will load files which takes a minute or two. Then, choices appear as Install, Repair etc. Choose Repair. It will ask you for Manual or Fast. Try the fast one 1st and if that doesn't work try the 2nd one. 2nd one,,,Reboot with win2k cd select install it will ask you if you want to try to repair the win2k you have on the machine select YES....Note: It will NOT overwrite you data files just put down new OS systems files.. When it is finished, while rebooting, change the sequence back to the original one, save and proceed. It should work. If you are new to this, I suggest that you jot down on paper what you are doing, so that you can retrace your steps. On Friday, February 6, 2004 at 1:41 am, George wrote: >When I click on "windows explorer" it will not open up >windows explorer. >When I look at the processes running it shows that >explorer is busy 99%. >This also happens when I click on settings and control panel, it does not open and >the explorer busy goes to 99%. >If I kill explorer.exe and start it back up using new task then explorer.exe starts >back up and it goes back to 00%. > > >I have run spyhunter, spy-bots, spysweeper, AVG, Trend Micro anti-virus, I have defraged >and ran chkdsk. > > >Does any one have any ideas of what to do? >Please help. Written in response to: Windows Explorer will not open (George: Friday, February 6, 2004 at 1:41 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Windows Explorer will not open (George: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 1:41 am) re: Windows Explorer will not open (Mark: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 2:46 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum