Guest unable to start Windows Explorer

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Hi,

Can anybody help?
Has anybody seen this problem:

I activated the Guest account on my system. It opens fine
but from it I can't run anything that requires Windows
Explorer. The Control Panel, the Garbage Bin, and even
Internet Explorer, none will run.

Thanx,

M.
 
M,

When you say they will not run, what do you mean exactly? Any Error Message
reported or just no doing anything when you click them??

Regards

Mike Bright MCP, MSP

e:[email protected]
 
Hi Mike,

Exactly: no error message, not doing anything.

Well, not quite - the system seems to hang up for ten or
twenty seconds, I can't do anything else, then the cursor
comes back to normal.

In the Task Manager, even though the Process is recorded
as running (Iexplore.exe), there are no corresponing
Application.

Other accounts work fine.

Thanx,

M.
 
Just a suggestion. Try going to a command prompt via Start/Accessories
and running Explorer.exe and see if any error indications pop up.
Sometimes that method can be revealing.

Good luck!
 
Just a suggestion. Try going to a command prompt via
Start/Accessories
and running Explorer.exe and see if any error
Click to expand...
indications pop up.


Thanks Jack,

I tried your suggestion with Explorer and IExplore. Same
thing: no window appear, and the Process is registered as
running in Task Manager. Then after about 10 seconds it
disappears from the list of running processes...

A thick plot indeed.

M.
 
For anybody following this thread:

I created a User account with LIMITED privileges. It
behaved the same as my Guest account: no application
would run, no error messages, no entry in the
Applications tab of the Task Manager.

I changed the privileges the new account to ADMINISTRATOR
and WinXP started to behave normally again.

This is a workaround, certainly not a fix. The Guest
account (you cannot change the privileges of a Guest
account) is still warped.

Footnote:
After recently perusing the MSN Newsgroups in search of
some help for my problem, I discovered that:
1- I'm glad that my problem is so benign compared to the
vast majority of issues discussed here.
2- I can't believe how fragile WinXP is.
3- Unless you have a "sexy" problem, help is hard to come
by, and a lot of it seems to be motivated by social
rather than technical concerns.

M.
 
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