Question Explorer does not start? W7

[DigDog]

Im not sure WHAT has happened, i had a driver failure or my wifi card died, anyway now when i boot up, windows explorer does not load. So, i dont get a desktop, i get an admin dos command, and it's obvious that windows itself has loaded, because i can access the task manager, and can see chrome, etc .... i can even launch explorer from either the aforementioned dos prompt, or from task manager, and everything works, so, really no harm done, it's just puzzling as to what has happened. Also, if i didnt have to type in "explorer" every restart, that would be great, but it's really that i want to track down what caused this issue in the first place.

As for the driver failure, i was installing a TP link wifi card, it worked for a few days, then died. Device won't start error.

 

[Iron Woode]

This might help:

Windows 7 Explorer.exe not starting when I boot my PC up.

Hello, I want to start off by stating that about 4 months ago I had this same problem with my computer where my explorer.exe would not automatically run when i boot my pc up. After manually running

answers.microsoft.com

if not, you could try an in-place re-install of win 7.

 

[DigDog]

Nope, tried to look that up, and the only value of Shell is in fact explorer.
Looks like im going to do an install of W10 because frankly, my W7 has so many tweaks (stable for 5 years ok?) that it would take ages to return it to the way it was.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Sounds like a "Gina" issue. Wifi drivers can replace the "gina.dll" driver, used for system logon. If that's not running, perhaps it's not starting the Workstation service, and launching the "Shell" as listed in the Registry, which is normally "Explorer.exe" with some switches to make it the root shell.

Try booting into Safe Mode, and un-install your Wifi drivers.

 

[DigDog]

did a W10 install.