Solved Issues with explorer windows not showing contents.

[Siveria]

Ok so I installed a program called classic shell, it worked fine, but then I wanted to remove that organize bar in win 7 home premium, So i downloaded and put in a new shellstyle.dll, and after rebooting I can no longer open folders, like they open but they are blank, cannot get into control panel, system restore did nothing to help, Ayy way I can restore this without having to delete everything off my hdd? I been trying google but been having no luck finding a solution at all. I had a backup of my shellstyle.dll but apparently the pc deleted it on its own for some wacked reason.

Here is an image of what I see when I open them.

 

[Ztruker]

Have you tried doing a System Restore to before you installed Classic Shell?

 

[Siveria]

Yeah was the first thing I tried, No go.

 

[event3horizon]

someone just fixed some issue like this running SFC /scannow. Try that command out in the command prompt.

 

[Siveria]

I'll try it, didn't know of that command.

 

[CB]

Hi Silveria

You may go to this page for while and read some about it System files checker

Kevin

 

[Siveria]

Thank you so much that worked, it repaired the corrupted files now everything is good, but I still wanna remvoe that damn organize bar lol. Gonna do it the dll edit way I think.

 

[Sir George]

Ok so I installed a program called classic shell, it worked fine, but then I wanted to remove that organize bar in win 7 home premium, So i downloaded and put in a new shellstyle.dll, and after rebooting I can no longer open folders, like they open but they are blank, cannot get into control panel, system restore did nothing to help, Ayy way I can restore this without having to delete everything off my hdd? I been trying google but been having no luck finding a solution at all. I had a backup of my shellstyle.dll but apparently the pc deleted it on its own for some wacked reason.

Here is an image of what I see when I open them.

You may want to give this a try.

Reinstall the program, if you uninstalled it, then follow the directions provided on SourceForge. I attempted to save you some time by providing the following;

What is the right way to uninstall Classic Shell?
To uninstall Classic Shell follow these steps:

• Stop the start menu if it is installed (right-click on the start button and select “Exit”)
• Open a new Windows Explorer window
• Make sure the toolbar is hidden (if you uninstall while the toolbar is visible, the menu bar in Explorer will get stuck in the visible state and you won’t be able to hide it)
• Close all Windows Explorer windows
• Open Control Panel -> Programs and Features and double-click on Classic Shell. Then follow the instructions. You may have to restart Windows to complete the process.
• If you installed any additional skins for the start menu you will have to delete them manually

After I uninstalled Classic Shell I can't hide the menu in Explorer any more. What do I do?
If you missed step 3 from the uninstall instructions and you are having problems with the menu, you have two options:

• Go to the registry, open the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\ShellBrowser key and delete the ITBar7Layout value as described here:Unhidable Menu Bar « QTTabBar
• Install Classic Shell again and uninstall it following all the instructions

If you need or want to get more detailed info, visit;

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/faq.html

HTH