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Old December 31st 05, 10:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
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Default Error loading explorer.exe

I tried earlier dates to resore the system, but no help. Removing the
Linksys NIC did not help. I did not see any Linksys files in the iosubsys
subdirectory.
I am still hoping that some knows how to fix this problem or can tell me how
to reload the system software without destroying the data.
Thanks,
Doug

"Mike M" wrote:

Since you have already used scanreg /restore and presumably restored a
copy of the registry that predates this unfortunate update I'm unclear why
you cannot now boot the system. Have you tried removing the Linksys NIC?
Have you tried booting to DOS and deleting any files that might have been
added to the windows\system\iosubsys folder when installing the Linksys
driver? Out of curiosity why were the drivers installed from DOS as this
is most unusual when installing most hardware especially something like a
network card?

Since you don't appear to be able to boot to progman.exe it would appear
that using system restore is out of the question although you could try
replacing explorer.exe in system.ini to
c:\windows\system\restore\rstrui.exe. This should boot straight in to
system restore.

3. I have run Norton virus scan for 14 hours with no viruses found.


Oh dear. The Norton kiss of death for any system but especially so for
one running Win Me. I'd start all over, clean install and next time
forget about installing any potentially system destroying software from
Symantec.
--
Mike Maltby



Moose46 wrote:

I downloaded a driver for a Linksys ethernet card. I extracted the
files and then I "installed" the driver in a DOS box. Then I
rebooted the machine running Win ME and received the error message:
"Error loading explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows".
I have tried the following with no help:
1. Used the Win ME rescue disk and ran scandisk /all and scanreg
/restore.
2. Extracted explorer.exe, shdocvw.dll, mshtml.dll, comctl32.dll,
shlwapi.dll, msvcrt.dll, and user32.dll.
3. I have run Norton virus scan for 14 hours with no viruses found.
4. I have edited the System.ini file and changed the shell from
explorer.exe to Winfile.exe or Progman.exe or Taskman.exe, but the
error message just changes from explorer.exe to "Error loading
Winfile.exe ..." etc.
5. The computer will not boot in Safe Mode.

What else can I do? What other files should be extracted?