Sigh. XP is so stable you don't have to do anything 'drastic'. Just open task manager, click 'File > New task (Run)' and type explorer.exe in the box, click 'ok' and explorer will restart. No problem

geez it sounds like we got a mac salesman in here .. **looks over shoulder **

explorer never crashed. nothing bad happened. I deleted explorer.exe in its entirety. My accident was thinking that windows would automatically ask me to insert the cd and reinstall explorer.exe. it didn't so I had to reinstall the whole dern thing. xp is very stable. I haven't had a single crash. Sometimes third party devices and software don't always work right, but thats where you learn more about windows.

begin mac rant:
If apple had as many third party apps and drivers as xp it wouldn't be nearly as stable as xp. Apples stability comes from its centralization of programs. that is why I don't like macs, they are built by apple for apple products. xp is built by microsoft for an incredible variety of other products including their own. In fact often I find microsofts own programs to be less stable then third party's.
end mac rant

Macs are also less expensive to upgrade...'cause ya can't.
You're stuck with what ya got until ya buy a whole new one.

macrobaye : Your mac praising starts to become annoying. >



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well past it actually

Macs are also less expensive to upgrade...'cause ya can't. You're stuck with what ya got until ya buy a whole new one.

....sounds like one of those eMachines...Nah..I'll keep my Dell with WindowsXP

macrobaye : Your mac praising starts to become annoying.

Yes...it's a bit that way.  I'm losing track of just how many threads have recently been turned into some Mac/Anti-Mac crusade by a few with seriously blunt axes to grind.

What say everyone goes to just one thread and does their Apple bruising and non-PC-ing there and leave the rest of the community in relative peace.

....or at least stay on topic.  I believe we are talking about Explorer.exe going AWOL, which has exactly zip/nada/nil to do with Apple or Mac or OSX or any other permutation of the three.

Stow it.....

. I believe we are talking about Explorer.exe going AWOL

I exiled him, but then I wanted him back and he said "no" and ran off with his little friends. I got very sad and lonely without him and I had to get him back. Finally I went down to the explorer.exe store and got me another one.
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T the C...you would only have needed to extract the explorer.exe from the CD, not re-install the lot....these days with burners, etc...you could have copied it from someone else's comp.....would have saved a boatload of time...

Actually Explorer.ex_ is 351,519 so it'd easily fit on a floppy...

If you had a back-up, with something like Drive Image 7, you could have restored the file in seconds...

I looked on the cd and couldn't find it. It was probably in one of the cabinet files, or I didn't look hard enough

I wish I had a backup. but its all over now and everything is back to normal. Reinstalling windows was just an hour out of my life.

T the C...it's in the i386 directory....right after...exe2bin.ex_ and right before extrac32.ex_....

let me look and how much of an idiot I really am.