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re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes'
Friday, May 5, 2006 at 3:09 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by David
(1 messages posted)
Hi. I am having the same problem, but when I looked in my registry for this key,
I could not find it. Do I need to create it and enter a value equal to the new copy
of explorer, with the path?
thanks...
On Monday, June 13, 2005 at 5:53 pm, Wilson Chu wrote:
>Looks like you got hit by some viruses.
>
>Try this: copy explorer.exe from C:\Windows to a temporary directory C:\temp and
>rename it to other name, for example, explrr.exe and then run c:\temp\explrr.exe
>You should be able to get the desktop.
>
>If the renamed file works then you can do the regedit and rename the following
key
>to what ever name you like except "explorer.exe":
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution
>Options\explorer.exe
>
>Then reboot your system and you should get your desktop back. Delete c:\temp\explrr.exe
>afterward as it's just a test.
>
>--Wilson
>
>
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