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February 23rd, 2006 07:00
explorer.EXE-Application Error
When I turn on my laptop I get this message box after I select any of the 3 users, Explorer.EXE - Application Error. In the box it says "The application failed to initialize properly (OxcOOOOOO5). Click on OK to terminate the application." There is an OK button and when I select it the message box disappears & all I'm left with is my desktop wallpaper with no icons, start button or any toolbar . The only thing I've been able to get to come up is the task manager. I'm new to computers so I don't know what I should be looking for. I can also get into the f12 screen but again I don't kbnow enough to find the problem. This happend when I was on the internet and went to a website I found on Google. When I clicked on the link my toolbar (lower right screen) had a small message balloon come up & the contents of this started changing rapidly like something was being loaded. I paniced & shut the compuuter off and disconneted the DSL line. When I attempted to turn it back on that's when the above problem started. I did notice something in the task manager called " alfe sweep" or something like that. I don't remember seeing it before. ??? I'm thinking I need to do some type of recovery. Maybe back to a date prior to my internet problem date? If so I don't know how. I can only get into the F2 & F12 screens. How would I do this? any help greatly appreiciated
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Augie65
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February 23rd, 2006 14:00
You can try a restore to before the problem. For your system restore, Start> All Programs> Accessories> System Tools> System Restore. You can go to the Help and Support from your start menu and type in System Restore and it will give you a guide to run the system restore. If you don't have one, you need to get an anti-virus program. I use AVG7 Free. You need only one anti-virus running at one time or it will cause problems. You can install several anti-sypware programs and run them at the same time without any problems. Several good ones are Microsoft Defender, Ad-aware SE, Sypbot S&D, and SpywareBlaster.
hoggdr
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February 24th, 2006 01:00
sparkenh
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February 24th, 2006 14:00
Try this fix:
1. Ctrl+Alt+Delete>File>New Task (Run...)
2. Type: ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/tools/shellfix.reg
3. Click Ok and it will prompt to download shellfix.reg file
4. Click "Run" file.
5. After it runs, reboot your computer
rainbowbrite
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March 5th, 2006 22:00
sparkenh
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March 6th, 2006 03:00
Go http://www.f-secure.com/download-purchase/tools.shtml
and download the file shellfix.zip. Unzip and then double-click shellfix.reg. Select Yes if you are asked if you want to add information from the REG file to the registry. Reboot. Hope this will fix your problem.
coffeecoffee
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May 9th, 2006 16:00