| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 32947 | 2003-05-02 08:34:00 | "Explorer.exe" in MS-Dos Prompt?? | Step (3336) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 140761 | 2003-05-02 08:34:00 | Uh, I have a computer that when booted, starts fine untill it actually starts loading windows, at this point I recieve a message saying somthing along the lines of "Explorer.exe cannot be run in MS-Dos prompt" and all i can do is click ok. After which absolutely nothing happens, and the computer does not continue to load. I tried re-installing Window 98 but that didn't seem to work. I do not wish to format my computer either as there is a lot of information on there i wish to keep. Any help is appreciated. | Step (3336) | ||
| 140762 | 2003-05-02 10:49:00 | Reinstalling Windows without formatting won't change a thing if the error is caused by a script or something on bootup. Installing over the top doesn't change settings already there. For best results you should format (although I'm not saying this is the answer to your problem - there may be something simple involved.) Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 140763 | 2003-05-02 12:17:00 | What happens if you type: win it may continue...? |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 140764 | 2003-05-02 20:45:00 | Another diagnostic approach is to start in Safe Mode ( if the system will do that of course) and run msconfig. It is likely that a rogue program or an error in autoexe.bat, or config.sys, or system.ini. or win.ini could be causing the problem. Check to see if you do have an autoexec or a config.sys and uncheck the boxes so that they are inoperative, reboot each time. Selectively uncheck programs in Startup, but not Explorer, rebooting each time to see what happens. It can be a very long winded and complex business, but msconfig and SafeMode are very powerful tools for sorting out this kind of start up problem. I've only given an abbreviated description here though. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1 | |||||