windows explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close
Frank N Stein
(I should have more
sense by now) when I boot up the following message comes up viz:
windows explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close
App Name Explorer exe.
App ver 6.0.2600
Mod name ntdll.dll
Mod ver 5.\.2.600 Offset 00036f7
I have done a search in the Microsoft Windows Google newsgroups, but can
find nothing to help me. I am running Win xp and IE/OE6
All help gratefully received.
Chris Game
> Since I used JV16 Power Tools (Reg Cleaner) to delete old
> registry entries (I should have more sense by now) when I boot up
> the following message comes up viz:
> ...
Look at the 'Backups' tab in the RegCleaner window. You should be
able to backtrack.
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Peter Boulding
<chri...@example.net> wrote:
>Look at the 'Backups' tab in the RegCleaner window. You should be
>able to backtrack.
One wonders if Frank can get that far, even in Safe Mode.
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John Patmore
<p...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> says...
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:14:43 +0100, Chris Game
> <chri...@example.net> wrote:
>
> >Look at the 'Backups' tab in the RegCleaner window. You should be
> >able to backtrack.
>
> One wonders if Frank can get that far, even in Safe Mode.
scanreg /restore
from the DOS prompt may assist.
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Peter Boulding
<fsnews4@.nojunk.jpatmore.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>scanreg /restore
>from the DOS prompt may assist.
Er...
>I am running Win xp and IE/OE6
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Terry
"Frank N Stein" <pa...@strathclyde.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3f8ae620$0$23964$cc9e...@news.dial.pipex.com...
Learn a lesson and unless the registry is giving you problems
leave wekk alone. The other replies should give you a way
out of this particular problem.
Regards
>
>
Frank N Stein
> Learn a lesson and unless the registry is giving you problems
> leave wekk alone. The other replies should give you a way
> out of this particular problem.
>
> Regards
Thanks to the response to my post.
John Patmore,
you struck a chord, and I tried the equivalent of what you suggested. Viz
Start Run cmd SFC/scannow which is for restoring missing Windows files or
corrupt DLLs. This is done with the Windows Recovery disk in the drive. It
has worked in the past, but unfortunately not this time.
I then used the backup facility in JV16 POwer Tools as was advised by Chris
Game, and this annoyance has disappeared. At times even CTRL ALT DELETE
wouldn't fix the freeze and I had to use the reset button, which was very
annoying.
It just goes to show that even deleting registry entries that are supposedto
be obsolete or unused is not safe. I have learned a lesson (again). I
could have been left with a reformat (again).
Grimly Fiendish
than it's worth, usually you end up with problems you never had or more
problems than you had in the first place.
I now do the maintainance myself with no problems.
John Patmore
<p...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> says...
> >I am running Win xp and IE/OE6
I think I'll stop replying to XP queries. Does this insane operating
system not have a command-line facility to restore the registry then?
Terry
"John Patmore" <fsnews4@.nojunk.jpatmore.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:MPG.19f663fcf...@news.freeserve.net...
> In article <vigmovg10rd7str0g...@4ax.com>, Peter Boulding
> <p...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> says...
> > >I am running Win xp and IE/OE6
>
> I think I'll stop replying to XP queries. Does this insane operating
> system not have a command-line facility to restore the registry then?
>
Open a console window. This replaces the old DOS window.
You can then use older DOS commands.
Regards
Peter Boulding
<te...@tbean.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>> I think I'll stop replying to XP queries. Does this insane operating
>> system not have a command-line facility to restore the registry then?
>Open a console window. This replaces the old DOS window.
>You can then use older DOS commands.
But not, presumably, when Windoze refuses to boot.
Or does XP allow you to create a boot diskette that can (a)
provide a command prompt and (b) handle NTFS?
Terry
"Peter Boulding" <p...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote in message
news:nh4qovggbom9pgsvs...@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:32:02 +0100, "Terry"
> <te...@tbean.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >> I think I'll stop replying to XP queries. Does this insane operating
> >> system not have a command-line facility to restore the registry then?
>
> >Open a console window. This replaces the old DOS window.
> >You can then use older DOS commands.
>
> But not, presumably, when Windoze refuses to boot.
>
> Or does XP allow you to create a boot diskette that can (a)
> provide a command prompt and (b) handle NTFS?
>
Not tried this one- but there is a repair option on the bootable
windows xp cd.
Regards
Chris Game
> Open a console window. This replaces the old DOS window.
> You can then use older DOS commands.
PLUS a lot of spiffy Unixy ones!
Chris Game
> Or does XP allow you to create a boot diskette that can (a)
> provide a command prompt and (b) handle NTFS?
Don't be silly!
Chris Game
> In article <v72movoe00addm44t...@4ax.com>, Peter Boulding
> <p...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> says...
> > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:14:43 +0100, Chris Game
> > <chri...@example.net> wrote:
> >
> > >Look at the 'Backups' tab in the RegCleaner window. You
> > >should be able to backtrack.
> >
> > One wonders if Frank can get that far, even in Safe Mode.
>
> scanreg /restore
> from the DOS prompt may assist.
Not in XP it won't. System restore from safe mode might work, or it's
down to restoring files from backup using the recovery console.
Chris Game
> usually you end up with problems you never had or more
> problems than you had in the first place
Something wrong there somewhere...
Peter Boulding
<chri...@example.net> wrote:
>> usually you end up with problems you never had or more
>> problems than you had in the first place
>
>Something wrong there somewhere...
I use Microsoft's (no-longer-supported) RegClean from time to
time on my Win98SE system and it does tend to clear out a fair
amount of stuff. But RegClean is known to be distinctly cautious
and non-aggressive, and MS nonetheless became worried about the
occasional problems it causes on some systems.
Chris Game
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:31:59 +0100, Chris Game
> <chri...@example.net> wrote:
>
> >> usually you end up with problems you never had or more
> >> problems than you had in the first place
> >
> >Something wrong there somewhere...
>
> I use Microsoft's (no-longer-supported) RegClean from time to
> time on my Win98SE system and it does tend to clear out a fair
> amount of stuff. But RegClean is known to be distinctly cautious
> and non-aggressive, and MS nonetheless became worried about the
> occasional problems it causes on some systems.
Well I was really trying to make sense of GF's English.
Peter Boulding
<chri...@example.net> wrote:
>> >> usually you end up with problems you never had or more
>> >> problems than you had in the first place
>> >
>> >Something wrong there somewhere...
>>
>> I use Microsoft's (no-longer-supported) RegClean from time to
>> time on my Win98SE system and it does tend to clear out a fair
>> amount of stuff. But RegClean is known to be distinctly cautious
>> and non-aggressive, and MS nonetheless became worried about the
>> occasional problems it causes on some systems.
>
>Well I was really trying to make sense of GF's English.
A lost cause... but in this case I can't really see a problem.
Chris Game
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:27:13 +0100, Chris Game
> <chri...@example.net> wrote:
>
> >> >> usually you end up with problems you never had or more
> >> >> problems than you had in the first place
> >> >
> >> >Something wrong there somewhere...
....
> >Well I was really trying to make sense of GF's English.
>
> A lost cause... but in this case I can't really see a problem.
It seems to me that the phrases "you end up with problems you never
had" and "more problems than you had in the first place" are not
exclusive, so the conjunction 'or' is inappropriate.
I'm now off for a lie down!
Peter Boulding
<chri...@example.net> wrote:
>It seems to me that the phrases "you end up with problems you never
>had" and "more problems than you had in the first place" are not
>exclusive, so the conjunction 'or' is inappropriate.
Fair enough; I only meant that it's not difficult to see what
Grimly was getting at.
>I'm now off for a lie down!
Sleep well.