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re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 7:57 pm
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Posted by Emario (1 messages posted)


You guys ROCK!!!!. Google Desktop was my problem. Combined with the advice to get into my add/remove programs earlier in the forum fixed it for me. I have looked around for days and finally have the solution. It is very frustrating Get rid of GOOGLE DESKTOP. Thanks.


On Monday, January 29, 2007 at 7:52 pm, overkillbill wrote:
>Thanks for the insight on removing Google Desktop. Combining this info with the
>advice from 666 about how to get to the add/remove programs function through the
>command prompt, I fixed the problem on my machine. Here's what I did:
>
>Problem started when I used Seagate's utility disk to move my files to a new HDD.
> On reboot, the taskbar would pop up for a second, then disappear. I could get to
>Task Manager with ctrl+alt+delete to run programs, but neither the GUI (explorer.exe)
>or Internet Explorer would run. I ran appwiz.cpl from Task Manager to get to add/remove
>programs. As soon as I uninstalled the Google Desktop, IE popped up at a Google
>page asking why I uninstaled the desktop. After screwing around with this for hours,
>needless to say, I was eager to give Google some "feedback"...
>
>
>


Written in response to:
re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (overkillbill: Monday, January 29, 2007 at 7:52 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: I have a corrupted explorer.exe file (Jmas: Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 10:21 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)
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