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BCMCF - 31 Dec 2003 05:17 GMT

My system has been rather unstable for quite some time;
crashing frequently. Tonight while installing another
printer it locked up. I needed to use CTRL-ALT-DEL to
get it to reboot. When it rebooted, I got a message
stating the was an error loading explorer.exe and that I
will have to reinstall Windows. YIKES!! if I do that I
will loose everything on the hard drive, including all my
installed programs and records..........
Is there a way to just reinstall explorer.exe?

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Noel Paton - 31 Dec 2003 09:48 GMT

Probably not - but you should still be able to use System Restore to get
back to a time when you could boot - then fix the problems before attempting
the upgrade again!
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q279736

If you really need to reinstall Windows, then look here for instructions on
how to do it without losing data (but backing up first is ALWAYS a good
idea!)
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm

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> My system has been rather unstable for quite some time;
> crashing frequently. Tonight while installing another
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> installed programs and records..........
> Is there a way to just reinstall explorer.exe?

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 31 Dec 2003 16:27 GMT

Or try a "dirty" install of ME from the windows file:

At the DOS prompt -- C:\Windows\Options\CABS\Setup <enter>
This "over" installs the OS rather than reinstalls the OS.

I have used this without losing any files except folder
view settings and network settings.

After this you might want to save all files of import and
then reinstall ME for stability.

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>Probably not - but you should still be able to use System Restore to get
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Noel Paton - 31 Dec 2003 19:18 GMT

(that's what the link I posted instructed! - with precautions for IE6 and
WMP9, etc...)

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> Or try a "dirty" install of ME from the windows file:
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> After this you might want to save all files of import and
> then reinstall ME for stability.

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