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Explorer.exe crashing.. Help..!
Hey.. So I booted into safe mode today trying to reinstall drivers for my wifi, when I noticed that Windows Explorer didn't work in safe mode, yet it did in normal mode. I found this odd, and set about fixing it. In normal mode, I have done alot of desktop customization including patching the default theme with uxstyler, and changed my theme to Gaia 09, alongside changing the explorer.exe, shellstyle.dll, and explorerframe.dll. So, I tried restoring all of these to their defaults. No luck, explorer still worked in normal mode but not safe mode. I then tried changing the theme to Windows Aero. Same outcome. I then changed to "High Contrast".. Then all of a sudden, explorer no longer works in either safe mode or normal mode. Before all of this, I also uninstalled uxstyler. Didn't do any difference.
Now I'm stuck. Can't get anywhere... And I'm clueless as what I should do. Tried to system restore, but stupidly, I ran ccleaner before I went to reinstall the drivers which is how I discovered this problem, and therefore all system restore points were wiped (never got around to reinstalling the drivers either fyi). I tried pasting shortcuts to the Aero theme and Gaia theme on my desktop via XP (dual booting XP and 7 on my laptop), but they require explorer to open before the theme changes.. So no luck that way either.
Can someone please help me? My girlfriend is coming over soon and don't really want to be fixing my laptop and not giving her my attention.. Supposed to be watching a film on my TV via the laptop tonight so need to get this fixed if I can
Can anyone help? Is a Windows 7 reinstall my only option?