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Crash trying to launch elevated command prompt
Needed to launch an elevated command prompt and now, explorer crashes when I do so.
What I've already done:
1) Run sfc /scdannow both from inside Win7 and from DVD. Finds files it can't fix. Appear to be due to (1) login screen customization, and (2) Vista basic custom there. But -- these have been true from when I first installed Win7 and have only run into this problem recently.
2) Read the thread on diagnosing Explorer crashes, applied the registry fix, generated the dump file. So, I can upload that here.
3) Do regular full-partition images, so went back three months, restoring one at time -- problem remains with the oldest restore I have -- December of last year.
4) Restored latest backup (2/25/11), ran startup repair (from DVD) three times. Rebooted Win7, tried elevated command prompt -- still crashes Explorer.
So, apart from a complete clean-install (which I am dreading because of all the pain I went through scrounging drivers for this XP-era Tablet PC), is there anything else I can do?