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  • Explorer failing to start on Win 7 64 Bit

    This happened a bit of a while ago, but I'd really like to fix it. It's not really a problem issue, just annoying, still...

    A while ago, I booted up my Win 7 machine to have CHKDSK run at boot. I skipped over it, thinking it was another random check, and since I had run it last week, didn't really need to.

    It booted fine, started Explorer, but then kept popping up with some of Opera's files are corrupted, and I should run CHKDSK to fix this.

    I do go to commandline and run CHKDSK on the main drive (C: ), with the switch for fix bad files and sectors on. I let it run, it takes an abysmally long time (5 hours), and then it boots normal. Sort of. It never booted Explorer as a shell, and I had to go to the task manager to start explorer.exe myself.

    Now, I can do this every time it boots, but it's really something I'd like to fix. I Googled it once and found a solution involving RegEdit and checking to see Explorer.exe was the shell listed (it was), so I've got nothing else.

    Help?

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    What did the RegEdit solution involve? That's getting to the deeper stuff but it can make a big difference.

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      Quoth emax4 View Post
      What did the RegEdit solution involve? That's getting to the deeper stuff but it can make a big difference.
      In short, it involved making sure Explorer.exe is the shell at startup.

      In long, here:

      http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-d...not-start.html

      EDIT: I didn't notice the second solution with SFC the first time around, I swear. Am currently following the SFC scan, to see what happens.
      Last edited by Krysalis; 06-22-2012, 04:09 AM.

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