Windows XP Shell Keeps Shutting down

October 27, 2008

Hello All,

Working on a very disturbed system this week, and after running every thing

I could think of, I'm here.

Back ground... Older Dell system, running XP Pro. Hasn't ran since Febuary

when the network adapater quick working. After my first initial look at the

system, someone put some cheap anti-virus program on the system and it

quaranteened the svchost file... rpc won't load.. you know the rest. Well

that was great, got a new svchost installed, but nothing was starting. All

kinds of services were no longer listed in the registry. Fun for me. Loaded

Ultimate boot cd for Windows, grabed an older version of the registry files,

copied them into the system32\Config, Rebooted, every thing came up execpt

one thing..... Explorer.exe. As soon as you try to start it by hand it quits

immedialy and DOES NOT write an event to the event log. No error code,

nothing. So, using the task manager, still was able to load Kaspersky Anti

Virus, removed 2568 items... Yes no joke, a lot of them are the Vundo. Also

loaded Counterspy, Maleware Bytes, and Spybot, each program removed tons of

crap from the sytem. However still no Explorer.exe. Renamed the file to

something else, nothing, renamed again, and changed shell entry in registry

to the new name, nothing, it still won't run. All scanners are showing the

system as being clean. Ran a XP repair (with SP3 slipstreamed) twice, yes

twice, and still the shell will stay on. Anyone got any ideas, besides

Formating and starting over?

Thanks,

Aaron

October 28, 2008

Re: Windows XP Shell Keeps Shutting down

Try my Explorer Shell Fix tool. Download it here

http://pcbutts1.com/downloads/tools/tools.htm

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"Aaron" <awoll_1@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> Hello All,

>

> Working on a very disturbed system this week, and after running every

> thing I could think of, I'm here.

>

> Back ground... Older Dell system, running XP Pro. Hasn't ran since Febuary

> when the network adapater quick working. After my first initial look at

> the system, someone put some cheap anti-virus program on the system and it

> quaranteened the svchost file... rpc won't load.. you know the rest. Well

> that was great, got a new svchost installed, but nothing was starting. All

> kinds of services were no longer listed in the registry. Fun for me.

> Loaded Ultimate boot cd for Windows, grabed an older version of the

> registry files, copied them into the system32\Config, Rebooted, every

> thing came up execpt one thing..... Explorer.exe. As soon as you try to

> start it by hand it quits immedialy and DOES NOT write an event to the

> event log. No error code, nothing. So, using the task manager, still was

> able to load Kaspersky Anti Virus, removed 2568 items... Yes no joke, a

> lot of them are the Vundo. Also loaded Counterspy, Maleware Bytes, and

> Spybot, each program removed tons of crap from the sytem. However still no

> Explorer.exe. Renamed the file to something else, nothing, renamed again,

> and changed shell entry in registry to the new name, nothing, it still

> won't run. All scanners are showing the system as being clean. Ran a XP

> repair (with SP3 slipstreamed) twice, yes twice, and still the shell will

> stay on. Anyone got any ideas, besides Formating and starting over?

>

> Thanks,

>

> Aaron

>

October 28, 2008

Re: Windows XP Shell Keeps Shutting down

Aaron wrote: