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Thank goodness for this thread, helped me figure out the problem. I actually installed a new DVD drive and instead of using the letter E: like the old DVD was, it decided to steal my Documents drive letter D: and left me baffled...lol.
hey all..
I want original explorer.exe for win 7 32bit...pleasee...
Migrating my data folders from one PC to another (including My documents, My Picures, My downloads etc), I had used an external SATA HD drive (E: on new system) to store all this data. It was containing the My document etc well recognised by Win7 (location could be changed / moved by Windows properties features).
I copied all the data folders (except folders like My documents) to a HD in the PC (G:) separate from the OS drive and checked all visible folders & files were there.
I used Windows facility to move My documents on E: from external to internal drive F:.
All seemed to work so fine during and after.
Over confident in a hurry, I formated the external HD E: and disconected it.
After reboot, Explorer would not open and I had loads of problems with applications.
Looking at the registry, I saw loads of entries pointing to the old E: now disconnected
A changed the letter of the internal HD from G: to E: and reboot.
Still Explore was not working.
I used the solution provided above
i.e. modify the value of HKCU\Soft\MS\WS\Current User\Explorer\User Shell
and only that
and the miracle happened: it worked straight
I was considering reloading the system before that. So, thanks for this solution.
to Baharipet
If you want, you can send me your email and I'll send you a copy of the Explorer file.
Sylvia
Well yes, the idea is:
In one of the keys, my "Favorites" setting points to "C:\Users\gigaherz\Favorites"
then the "Documents" one should similarly be "C:\Users\gigaherz\Documents"
but on the other key, the value for "Favorites" was "%USERPROFILE%\Favorites"
and in the same way, "Documents" should also be "%USERPROFILE%\Documents"
"%USERPROFILE%" happens to be an environment variable pointing to your user folder, so it also points to "C:\Users\gigaherz" in my case, but it could be different in your pc so just set them so that Documents has the same base path as My Pictures, My Music My Video, Downloads, and/or Favorites.
Many thanks to the poster that mentioned making the registry change and to the others who tried that and said that it worked! I had virtually the same problem and had moved my documents and the registry was pointing to the wrong location. I corrected that and it worked and I really appreciate it the information!