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Win 98-Can't find explorer.exe

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guardfish

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Sceanrio: Installed a Linksys router to share a cable modem connection with another PC. Connection worked fine. The before I conencted the other PC, uninstalled Zone Alarm and inadvertantly told Uninstaller to delete all files and some shared by Windows. When rebooted, had a VFAT Error (had upgraded from Win 95). Fixed this problem. Now when I hard reboot, I get to the Desktop Background but no icons. Then a window pops up that says: Explorer can't find explorer.exe. Details show an explorer.exe kernel fault and addresses. When I CTRL-ALT-DEL, the explorer tray is empty. Any ideas on how to fix? Have checked the web but nothing. Any alternatives to access the data other than using a new master drive and making the current drive a slave?

Ed
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Hummm.. vfat errors an missing explorer.exe not a good sign. I had the same errors, I had to re-install. There may be another way around it, but I have never found it.
 
If you can access another Win 98 machine you can grab the explorer.exe from there. They will be the same. you can upload it through DOS. There is also a way to get those files off of the windows 98 disk, but i cant remember how. If you havnt got an answer by the time i get home ill look it up and post the solution.
 
Hey guy. Can't access the CD-ROM to reinstall since I can't access Windows; does not recognize the drive. Can access a drive aand through it the c drive. Do have explorer.exe in the windows folder though.

Ed
 
Use your Emergency Startup Disk . . . DOS w/CD ROM support. Or copy the file to where it is supposed to be using DOS.

You can also run SCANREG on boot and change to a registry that was good before all this stuff took place. If Explorer.exe is in C:\Windows, that's where it is supposed to be, so it sounds like a registry problem in not being able to find it.

 
Yeah, just get a startup disk and reinstall. It may be curropt, but that isnt to likly. You can reinstall without deleting all of your old software, if that matters, just dont reformat.

But I agree with corky-g on the registry
 
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