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Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes'
Friday, July 19, 2002 at 7:29 am
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Posted by Winston Robin Lewis (8 messages posted)

I have a question about How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes:

Recently i upgraded from Win Me to Windows Xp Professional. Before when i was using Me i had once installed Ads Off to kill the popups that appear during browsing. Then i didnt like it so i uninstalled it. There was no problem in ME. But now after installing Xp a dialog box appears saying - w32sock.dll not found ! AdsOff cant run ! Please see our help files. This happens when-- 1) I right click on my Desktop 2) I select a html page in explorer When i click ok the explorer restarts. This is causing a lot of problems and its very frustrating. I saw in Add/Remove programs but ads off is not listed there. There is no program folder for it in Program Files either nor are there any keys related to ads off or its company in the registry. I think this problem is somehow related to IE. But i cant uninstall IE either.

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re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Martin: Friday, July 19, 2002 at 8:42 am)

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Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Winston Robin Lewis: Fri, Jul 19, 2002, 7:29 am)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Martin: Fri, Jul 19, 2002, 8:42 am)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Winston Robin Lewis: Sat, Jul 20, 2002, 6:42 am)

re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Diego: Mon, May 12, 2003, 2:41 am)

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