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MrX
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« on: October 12, 2011, 01:48:07 PM »
The other day I was scanning my PC and removing my threats, after I removed then and I rebooted. The next day and I was copying my files to my USB and shut downed my PC.

The next day when I rebooted it, the whole PC went black, I can't see anything, task bar, explorer, my computers, icons etc. And when I open Task Manager and type explorer.exe it says "Explorer.exe is not a valid win32 application". Can anyone help me with this? I went to repair my PC using Windows 7 DVD but the results were the same. I googled it about the help but no similar results found. Does anyone know how to fix it? I think my explorer.exe is corrupted, how do I get a fresh new explorer.exe?

The only thing I use to open firefox, games etc is Task Manager > CMD. I can't open any folders or file, I have to go to the directory in CMD and run it.

I came to know about this forum by watching Britec's videos on YouTube, hope you help me out sir.

Thank You.
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« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2011, 03:55:40 AM »
Run the System File Checker/ SFC -

START | type cmd.exe into the start search box | right-click on cmd.exe | select run as Administrator | the black command prompt ("DOS") screen will appear | type the following:

sfc /scannow

Upon completion re-boot to allow files in use to be repaired.
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« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2011, 11:46:14 AM »
I did it, but it said: "Windows Resource Protection could not start the repair service". How to fix that?
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« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2011, 03:05:44 PM »
System Restore? Repair Install?
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