Why? Friday, December 27, 2002 at 12:07 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Paul D (2162 messages posted) There's nothing in either the poster's question, brief as it is, or the article she's referencing, to suggest her Explorer is corrupt. In all versions of Windows Explorer is crash-prone without being corrupt. Sure, extracting a new copy can't do any harm, but in most cases it's not going to do any good either. Paul D On Thursday, December 26, 2002 at 10:39 pm, Carol wrote: > >You need to extract a new copy of Explorer.exe. You'll need your OS CD handy, unless >you have Cab files on your hard drive, normally in C:\windows\options\cabs. > >First, you'll need to edit the 'system.ini' file in DOS to temporarily replace the >Explorer shell with Winfile. Then you can access your start menu, etc. > >Boot to the command prompt. At the C:\> prompt (press enter after each line) type: > >cd windows >edit system.ini > >Now change the shell=explorer.exe to shell=winfile.exe > >>> press Alt+F together to access the File, Save and Exit menu and save the file >and exit. > >> Do a ctrl-alt-del to reboot. > >> Once in Winfile click File - Run, type: SFC then click OK. Choose to extract >one file from disk. File to extract: Explorer.exe (either point to the location >of your CAB install files or your Windows CD, whichever the case). Location to extract >to: C:\windows > >Hopefully, you'll get a message saying the file has been successfully extracted. >Before exiting and shutting down, click File > Run again and enter system.ini so >that it opens in Notepad. Edit the line back to shell=explorer.exe Then reboot, >and a new copy of Explorer.exe will be in place. > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Ms. Eagle: Thursday, December 26, 2002 at 10:39 pm) Responses to this message: re: Why? (Ms. Eagle: Friday, December 27, 2002 at 12:42 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (WANDA BOLES: Thu, Dec 26, 2002, 9:19 pm) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Dec 26, 2002, 10:39 pm) Why? (Paul D: Fri, Dec 27, 2002, 12:07 am) re: Why? (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Dec 27, 2002, 12:42 am) re: Why? (Paul D: Fri, Dec 27, 2002, 1:15 am) re: Why? (wuz2blu: Wed, Apr 2, 2003, 9:30 pm) re: Why? (James Shannon: Fri, Sep 9, 2005, 2:10 am) re: Why? (xlioilx: Mon, Sep 17, 2007, 2:21 am) re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (JmC: Fri, Dec 27, 2002, 1:00 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 98 Discussion Forum