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Explorer has caused an error in
I am receiving the following message whenever I try to get
into Windows Explorer, or Control Panel, or when double clicking on My Computer: Explorer has caused an error in unknown. Explorer will now close. If you continue to experience problems, try restarting your computer. ----------------- Needless to say, restarting the computer has not solved anything. Any advice anyone can give me on how to solve this will be greatly appreciated!! Thank you in advance, Christian |
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Explorer has caused an error in
You may have a virus/spyware hijack
download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling viruses are not present on your PC http://download.nai.com/products/mca...rt/stinger.exe - update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files. Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip Try BHODemon - from http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/bhod/ Download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties from your system. (thanks to Graham Womack for the following) Do all this in Safe Mode....... Make a Restore Point - just in case it gets worse. Using Regedit, search for 'Safeguard'. Make a note of the dll name (if there's an entry at all). Run BHODemon. Look for the same dll name The 'Details' key should give you more information about when the entries were loaded. Disable the registry entry. Search your hard drive for the dll file (should be in Windows\System). Rename it and a similar named lib file - change the extensions. Reboot, cross your fingers and try 'My Computer' HTH -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp "Christian" wrote in message ... I am receiving the following message whenever I try to get into Windows Explorer, or Control Panel, or when double clicking on My Computer: Explorer has caused an error in unknown. Explorer will now close. If you continue to experience problems, try restarting your computer. ----------------- Needless to say, restarting the computer has not solved anything. Any advice anyone can give me on how to solve this will be greatly appreciated!! Thank you in advance, Christian |
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Explorer has caused an error in
I am having the same problem. Have you found a solution yet? -----Original Message----- I am receiving the following message whenever I try to get into Windows Explorer, or Control Panel, or when double clicking on My Computer: Explorer has caused an error in unknown. Explorer will now close. If you continue to experience problems, try restarting your computer. ----------------- Needless to say, restarting the computer has not solved anything. Any advice anyone can give me on how to solve this will be greatly appreciated!! Thank you in advance, Christian . |
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Explorer has caused an error in
Rick T wrote:
wrote: I am having the same problem. Have you found a solution yet? Since he hasn't posted results, we'll probably never know... what were *your* results using the proferred solutions ? kneejerk response that; the original poster did post his results. Rick |
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Explorer has caused an error in
Not the original one from this particular thread, Rick - although OE's
threading model makes it look like it, I suspect that the CDO has different threading. FWIW, here;s the response I gave the OP in this thread - one Mow time! (with apologies - couldn't resist it) You may have a virus/spyware hijack download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling viruses are not present on your PC http://download.nai.com/products/mca...rt/stinger.exe - update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files. Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip Try BHODemon - from http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/bhod/ Download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties from your system. (thanks to Graham Womack for the following) Do all this in Safe Mode....... Make a Restore Point - just in case it gets worse. Using Regedit, search for 'Safeguard'. Make a note of the dll name (if there's an entry at all). Run BHODemon. Look for the same dll name The 'Details' key should give you more information about when the entries were loaded. Disable the registry entry. Search your hard drive for the dll file (should be in Windows\System). Rename it and a similar named lib file - change the extensions. Reboot, cross your fingers and try 'My Computer' HTH -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp "Rick T" wrote in message ... Rick T wrote: wrote: I am having the same problem. Have you found a solution yet? Since he hasn't posted results, we'll probably never know... what were *your* results using the proferred solutions ? kneejerk response that; the original poster did post his results. Rick |
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Explorer has caused an error in
To all with the desktop problem (not being able to access
files or "my computer" on desktop): replacing the current desktop software with the newer Java stuff worked perfectly and solved my problem within minutes after days of frustration. Go here and look on the top right corner: http://java.com/en/index.jsp -----Original Message----- You may have a virus/spyware hijack download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling viruses are not present on your PC http://download.nai.com/products/mca...rt/stinger.exe - update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files. Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip Try BHODemon - from http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/bhod/ Download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties from your system. (thanks to Graham Womack for the following) Do all this in Safe Mode....... Make a Restore Point - just in case it gets worse. Using Regedit, search for 'Safeguard'. Make a note of the dll name (if there's an entry at all). Run BHODemon. Look for the same dll name The 'Details' key should give you more information about when the entries were loaded. Disable the registry entry. Search your hard drive for the dll file (should be in Windows\System). Rename it and a similar named lib file - change the extensions. Reboot, cross your fingers and try 'My Computer' HTH -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f...2001/Mar01/Mar 27pmvp.asp "Christian" wrote in message ... I am receiving the following message whenever I try to get into Windows Explorer, or Control Panel, or when double clicking on My Computer: Explorer has caused an error in unknown. Explorer will now close. If you continue to experience problems, try restarting your computer. ----------------- Needless to say, restarting the computer has not solved anything. Any advice anyone can give me on how to solve this will be greatly appreciated!! Thank you in advance, Christian . |
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Explorer has caused an error in
You may have been lucky - this will NOT work on most people's systems,
AFAIK! -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp "Jeff Smith" wrote in message ... To all with the desktop problem (not being able to access files or "my computer" on desktop): replacing the current desktop software with the newer Java stuff worked perfectly and solved my problem within minutes after days of frustration. Go here and look on the top right corner: http://java.com/en/index.jsp -----Original Message----- You may have a virus/spyware hijack download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling viruses are not present on your PC http://download.nai.com/products/mca...rt/stinger.exe - update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files. Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip Try BHODemon - from http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/bhod/ Download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties from your system. (thanks to Graham Womack for the following) Do all this in Safe Mode....... Make a Restore Point - just in case it gets worse. Using Regedit, search for 'Safeguard'. Make a note of the dll name (if there's an entry at all). Run BHODemon. Look for the same dll name The 'Details' key should give you more information about when the entries were loaded. Disable the registry entry. Search your hard drive for the dll file (should be in Windows\System). Rename it and a similar named lib file - change the extensions. Reboot, cross your fingers and try 'My Computer' HTH -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f...2001/Mar01/Mar 27pmvp.asp "Christian" wrote in message ... I am receiving the following message whenever I try to get into Windows Explorer, or Control Panel, or when double clicking on My Computer: Explorer has caused an error in unknown. Explorer will now close. If you continue to experience problems, try restarting your computer. ----------------- Needless to say, restarting the computer has not solved anything. Any advice anyone can give me on how to solve this will be greatly appreciated!! Thank you in advance, Christian . |
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