...opened through an application such as Chrome or Word. I can use Explorer just fine normally, unless I try to open up a file. Then I get this: http://imgur.com/Eg20N.jpg
Any ideas? Changing the theme doesn't seem to help.
That would seem to be an error in that particular program. Give a reinstall of the program a shot.
~Lordbob
No go. And it does it in EVERY program that opens up Explorer. That means Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, GIMP, MS Word, Foobar2000, Sony Vegas, REAPER, etc. I can't reinstall ALL of them.
Any idea which file would control this? Explorer.exe, explorerframe.dll, shell32.dll?
Solved!
Turns out that you don't want to replace the files in SysWOW64 when changing themes, only the files in system32. I did the "sfc /scannow" and only replaced the ExplorerFrame.dll in system32 and everything's working again.
Dang Windows directory confusion...
Well because I don't have a dang clue what I'm doing, apparently.
See, as I was unaware of what "WOW" was, I just figured that since I'm installing 64-bit stuff, it should go in the system folder that's labeled with a "64". Call it "I haven't used Windows since 2007" logic.
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