interesting accident
Sunday, January 18, 2004 by kongit | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
did you know that your computer will run without having explorer.exe on it anymore. I didn't, but I do now.
wierd.
now my question is how do I get it back without reinstalling windows?
wierd.
now my question is how do I get it back without reinstalling windows?
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Keith Perry
Reply #22 Monday, January 19, 2004 7:05 AM
....sounds like one of those eMachines...Nah..I'll keep my Dell with WindowsXP
Reply #22 Monday, January 19, 2004 7:05 AM
| 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
Jafo
Reply #23 Monday, January 19, 2004 7:13 AM
Reply #23 Monday, January 19, 2004 7:13 AM
| 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.....
kongit
Reply #24 Monday, January 19, 2004 7:18 AM
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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Reply #24 Monday, January 19, 2004 7:18 AM
| . 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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Jafo
Reply #25 Monday, January 19, 2004 7:48 AM
Reply #25 Monday, January 19, 2004 7:48 AM
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...
Jafo
Reply #26 Monday, January 19, 2004 7:50 AM
Reply #26 Monday, January 19, 2004 7:50 AM
Actually Explorer.ex_ is 351,519 so it'd easily fit on a floppy...
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #27 Monday, January 19, 2004 7:51 AM
Reply #27 Monday, January 19, 2004 7:51 AM
If you had a back-up, with something like Drive Image 7, you could have restored the file in seconds...
kongit
Reply #28 Monday, January 19, 2004 8:09 AM
Reply #28 Monday, January 19, 2004 8:09 AM
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.
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.
Jafo
Reply #29 Monday, January 19, 2004 8:16 AM
Reply #29 Monday, January 19, 2004 8:16 AM
T the C...it's in the i386 directory....right after...exe2bin.ex_ and right before extrac32.ex_....
kongit
Reply #34 Monday, January 19, 2004 8:24 AM
Reply #34 Monday, January 19, 2004 8:24 AM
mines 960 kb
so you just run it on the cd and it will install?
so you just run it on the cd and it will install?
Jafo
Reply #35 Monday, January 19, 2004 8:27 AM
Reply #35 Monday, January 19, 2004 8:27 AM
No...on the CD it is compressed.....has the underscore suffix 'ex_'....you need to expand it [unpack] and copy it to the 'Windows' folder of your drive...
kongit
Reply #37 Monday, January 19, 2004 8:29 AM
Reply #37 Monday, January 19, 2004 8:29 AM
how do you unpack the 'ex_' files? (I'd like to know this for future reference)
and 960k is 1000960....I knew that, where is my mind going
and 960k is 1000960....I knew that, where is my mind going
Jafo
Reply #38 Monday, January 19, 2004 8:31 AM
Reply #38 Monday, January 19, 2004 8:31 AM
In i386 there is a proggy called 'expand.exe'....that'd unpack the ex_ file...
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Reply #21 Monday, January 19, 2004 6:07 AM