Blank navigation pane in Explorer when...

[SomeGuyDude]

...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.

 

[Lordbob75]

That would seem to be an error in that particular program. Give a reinstall of the program a shot.

~Lordbob

 

[SomeGuyDude]

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.

 

[Prisoner]

Might be the theme? :3

On a side note, those are Token icons, aye?

 

[FZ21Z]

Whatever you've installed to change the appearance seems to be the obvious issue.

 

[SomeGuyDude]

Any idea which file would control this? Explorer.exe, explorerframe.dll, shell32.dll?

 

[Lordbob75]

Any idea which file would control this? Explorer.exe, explorerframe.dll, shell32.dll?

Try changing the theme to a default Windows one to see if that affects it.

~Lordbob

 

[SomeGuyDude]

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...

 

[Frostmourne]

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...

WOW64 is windows on windows x64 emulation layer - why change there in the first place?

 

[SomeGuyDude]

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.

 

[Lordbob75]

Well, now you know

~Lordbob

 

[iTunes]

but i haven't done yet. have same problem, while running sfc it stops till 5%, poor me....