explorer.exe

[fishkiller00]

When a user logs in nothing comes up except for a my documents window. If I close that out do ctrl+alt+del, and do new task and type explorer.exe the my documents window comes back up. Nothing else, no start menu, no icons, nothing. I have never seen this before...Please help

 

[captaincrunch00]

I would try copying the users profile (just their desktop and favorites) to a new place in Documents and Settings, rename the old one to USERNAME.old and then make them log in again and copy the desktop/favorites to the folder that is created when they log in again.

You may have to change a few things to get them working 100% again, but it's easier than trying to troubleshoot something that SHOULD work but doesnt for some reason.

 

[fishkiller00]

I thought about doing that, but this problem happens with every account I've used logging in. Even when I login locally it does the same thing

 

[vacunita]

Check in registry that this key's value is explorer.exe:

    Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell

    Type: REG_SZ

    Value: Explorer.exe

If it is set, then you might need to replace explorer.exe from yur Windows CD and see if that fixes the issue.



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[fishkiller00]

In that path I dont have a \shell in winlogon

 

[vacunita]

Can you create the key there? see if that will fix the issue?
Also look here for another key that should have explorer exe as its value.

    Key: HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell

    Type: REG_SZ

    Value: c:\windows\system32\explorer.exe

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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.