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Verclsid.exe Problem in XP Mode
I have an annoyance that is a bit baffling.
Background: I'm using Windows XP Mode on my Windows 7 System. Recently, I encountered a problem--when I started Windows XP Mode, I got a message that the Integration Features could not be activated. After several tries, I decided to restore a backup of the entire XP Mode system that I had made the previous day. I did that, and after that, XP Mode works just fine again--with one exception.
Problem: Now, if I open Windows Explorer (the XP version of Windows Explorer in XP Mode), it works fine, but whenever I click on a drive or folder in the right pane, I get a command prompt box that opens and closes very quickly. After a lot of squinting (because the box only flashes open for a second) I was able to make out in the title bar the name of the program that was running--verclsid.exe. Note that this doesn't occur the SECOND time I click on a drive or folder. But the first time I click on COMPUTER, the box flashes several times, as the drives on the Windows 7 computer are listed one by one--one box for each drive. Windows Explorer still seems to operate OK, but this is clearly NOT normal behavior. I've done some searching for the verclsid.exe file, and find that it has something to do with validating shell extensions. But I'm not even sure if the version that is running is the XP version, or the version from Windows 7 (the host computer for the Virtual Machine in which XP is running).
Anyone have any insights into what is happening, and (more importantly) how to resolve it, short of removing and reinstalling XP Mode? I went thorough that once, and it's a real ordeal to get it reinstalled, reupdated, and my virtual applications reinstalled. That's when I started making daily backups of the entire XP Mode.