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Old July 27th 04, 01:29 PM
GK
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Default Explorer.exe

I have got rid of the MS-DOS window that opens on startup
and the error message that comes with it "C:\explorer.exe
is not a valid MS-DOS file. It may be damaged or corrupt."
On startup I just get the standard "explorer has performed
an illegal operation and will be shutdown."

I've tried to rename/delete explorer.exe in the C:\Windows
folder and use SFC.exe to extract a new version from my
Windows disk but still its not working. I get the same
illegal operation error message.

I really don't understand why. I remove the file, extract
a new version of it only to get the same message again.
The only thing I can think of is that explorer.exe isn't
corrupt or damaged.

Can anyone help?

(BTW, should there be an explorer.exe explorer.old and
explorer.scf in the C:\Windows folder?
Also when extracting the new explorer.exe file from the
Windows disk, I check up on the file's properties only to
find that the file has a created/modified date of 1998.
Surely the extraction of the new file should yield a date
of 2004?)

 




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