Explorer.exe loads, then closes...

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited March 2007 in Science & Tech
Got a very strange computer here. It's free of viruses and spyware, I've completely emptied the startup tasks, disabled system.ini/win.ini, run dial-a-fix, replaced explorer.exe and shdocvw.dll, scanned for rootkits, disabled all the shell extensions for explorer, run most of the HKLM\software\microsoft\windows nt-level registry fixes if applicable, but the problem persists:

On login, explorer.exe loads for a second, then immediately closes.

Thoughts?

Comments

  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited February 2007
    Thrax if it wasn't you my first guess would have been spyware. That's the only time I've seen that. I'll be interested to see what happens but if there's no spyware I've got noth'n. If you start explorer.exe again does it close right away?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2007
    Indeed it does.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited February 2007
    Have you completely ruled out hardware failure?

    Or 3rd party explorer enhancements such as windowblinds, et. al?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2007
    Stripped the add/remove programs of any non-windows application, hardware checked out okay (HDD and memory especially).
  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited February 2007
    Event viewer show anything on explorer.exe shutting down?
  • WolfenWolfen
    edited February 2007
    i had the same problem, using RUN/sfc /scannow cleared it right up.
  • jbzcooperjbzcooper
    edited March 2007
    Thrax, did you ever resolve the issue? I'm having the same problem and am looking for a solution.
    Thanks,
    jbzc
  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited March 2007
    jbz....Thrax's first comment was that the computer he was working on was free of viruses, etc. That's because that problem is often a symtom of virsis/crud. If you are absolutely sure, we should start a new thread instead of hijacking this one. If you aren't sure, you should go over to our SVT removal thread here and post a HJT log.
  • jbzcooperjbzcooper
    edited March 2007
    mtrox wrote:
    ... we should start a new thread instead of hijacking this one...

    I was just interested in his solution if he found one...
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited March 2007
    Never found one. Reformatted the PC.
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