re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file Friday, August 10, 2007 at 9:17 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Sparky (1 messages posted) If you can open the task manager, right click on the explorer that is running and click "end task". Once it disappears off the processes, go to File and click on "run/new task". Type in explorer, and your desktop should return and also your task bar. Should get you to your System restore. Hope this helps On Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 3:28 pm, gofergal wrote: > > > >I am trying to help a friend with a similar problem. He went to task manager and >explorer.exe seemed to be taking all the memory so he did the "delete tree" thingy... >well now he cannot get anything on his desktop except wallpaper. The CTRL+ESC doesn't >work nor the right click... He can get in to task manager....but nothing will open >outside of task manager... >If we could just get to system restore...and run it I think that would work but maybe >not. Any suggestions? thanks Written in response to: re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (gofergal: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 3:28 pm) Responses to this message: re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (gofergal: Friday, August 10, 2007 at 12:44 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Matt: Friday, December 28, 2007 at 6:29 am) All messages in this thread [show all] I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Greg: Mon, Aug 25, 2003, 4:18 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (vcft67: Mon, Aug 25, 2003, 4:32 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (cindy: Thu, Nov 27, 2003, 9:09 am) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (rob wei: Fri, May 14, 2004, 1:31 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Valentin: Mon, Jan 10, 2005, 8:08 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (dyer85: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 1:51 am) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (666: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 4:32 am) re: I had a corrupted explorer.exe file until i followed step 8. (Ishmael: Wed, Nov 12, 2008, 5:32 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Falcon: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 4:42 am) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (julian: Tue, Jul 12, 2005, 9:07 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (velvi: Fri, Aug 26, 2005, 9:37 am) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (SpaceFrog: Mon, Nov 14, 2005, 6:05 pm) Tried RENAMING .......... did not work though (Leo: Mon, Jul 17, 2006, 11:18 am) re: Tried RENAMING .......... did not work though (Garth Micro: Mon, Aug 27, 2007, 12:24 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Jeff: Wed, Dec 1, 2010, 5:51 am) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (dyer85: Tue, Jul 12, 2005, 11:35 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (komori: Tue, Feb 17, 2009, 10:42 pm) cant get icons, start menu, or task bar to show up (daniel: Mon, Oct 16, 2006, 3:51 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (tahir: Mon, Oct 16, 2006, 11:12 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Luke: Fri, Oct 27, 2006, 8:29 am) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (overkillbill: Mon, Jan 29, 2007, 7:52 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Emario: Tue, Nov 20, 2007, 7:57 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Jmas: Thu, Sep 10, 2009, 10:21 am) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Tim Dunne: Sat, Jan 30, 2010, 7:05 am) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (MartinM: Sat, Jan 30, 2010, 7:54 am) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Tony: Thu, Feb 4, 2010, 12:33 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Brian: Wed, Jan 3, 2007, 2:54 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Sam: Sat, Jan 6, 2007, 9:09 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Brian: Wed, Jan 10, 2007, 11:06 am) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Sam: Wed, Jan 10, 2007, 6:03 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Tarheel72: Sun, Apr 15, 2007, 7:30 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (gofergal: Wed, Jun 27, 2007, 3:28 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Sparky: Fri, Aug 10, 2007, 9:17 am) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (gofergal: Fri, Aug 10, 2007, 12:44 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Matt: Fri, Dec 28, 2007, 6:29 am) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Zopiac: Sat, Feb 2, 2008, 3:02 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Mohsin: Thu, May 22, 2008, 4:05 pm) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Spexx: Fri, May 23, 2008, 4:36 am) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Mohsin: Fri, May 23, 2008, 7:43 am) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Jackyy: Wed, Dec 10, 2008, 2:04 am) re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Bill Kleyman: Fri, Mar 6, 2009, 6:18 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 XP Discussion Forum