MJFSOL Posted November 2, 2006 CID Share Posted November 2, 2006 ok somewhere i goofed and when i load up my puter...it says windows cant find explorer.exe i was tweaking the registry...(yes i did a backup b4 i messed with it) but tried to restore it and no luck... so i present myself to the mercy of the 4um..lol thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted November 2, 2006 CID Share Posted November 2, 2006 ok somewhere i goofed and when i load up my puter...it says windows cant find explorer.exe i was tweaking the registry...(yes i did a backup b4 i messed with it) but tried to restore it and no luck... so i present myself to the mercy of the 4um..lol thanx there are a few things you can do, the easiest is going to be to run the windows repair and let windows fix it self and restore the registry to a normal working level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJFSOL Posted November 2, 2006 Author CID Share Posted November 2, 2006 okie ill give it a shot...ty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted November 2, 2006 CID Share Posted November 2, 2006 You can also try this- (if you have xp) Goto start/run and type in: sfc /scannow You will need your windows installation disk. It will check your system files and correct/replace as needed. Just make sure you run an update after you do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJFSOL Posted November 2, 2006 Author CID Share Posted November 2, 2006 i cant get that far... my wallpaper will load up then it says explorer.exe unable to locate component.. "this application has failed to start because Normaliz.dll was not found.Reinstalling this app may fix the problem" tried the XP disk and the repair option...no dice... tried again rolling back...same thing,.,.. so i cant even get far enough in the boot up...good thing i have a backup puter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted November 2, 2006 CID Share Posted November 2, 2006 Just wondering...Did you install IE7 on this computer? Or does it just have IE6? Does the error have you click ok? If it does, try to hit ctrl+alt+del before you hit ok, and see if task manager opens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJFSOL Posted November 2, 2006 Author CID Share Posted November 2, 2006 yes had ie7 and no probs... then all of a sudden this happens...go figure considering a fresh re-install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted November 2, 2006 CID Share Posted November 2, 2006 Did you uninstall IE7 by any chance? ( I mean prior to this happening) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholla Posted November 2, 2006 CID Share Posted November 2, 2006 MJFSOL;Even though I don't have XP I've made some posts about scannow you could search for here at testmy.They have some MS links.It might not be the best.Is there a way for you to extract explorer.exe from your disk & copy it to your Windows folder? You might see if you can get into safe mode.If you can search to see if you have an i386 folder .If you do it might have explorer.exe that in a cab file that you can extract to Windows folder. I have ME & can go to DOS to do this but Xp doesn't really have DOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJFSOL Posted November 2, 2006 Author CID Share Posted November 2, 2006 went and did a reinstall....hell it runs faster and the connection speeds are faster.....lol and no i tried that cholla....nothing....i think i tinkered too much in the registry for my own good...but thats the only way you learn...trial and error.... in my case...lots and lots of errors... anyway im back up again...resetting certain things .... and leaving others the hell alone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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