IEXPLORE.EXE is not a valid Win32 application

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The Rob

Hi group!

I have built a large amount of embedded images but never had this problem
before: "IEXPLORE.EXE is not a valid Win32 application"
This happens when clicking on the "Internet Explorer" icon, which also
doesn´t look correct (the normal IE icon has disappeared).

AFAIK, this occurred after adding "Administration Support Tools" and
auto-resolving its dependencies.
This component was added because we need "services.msc".

Using SP2, Winlogon and pretty much the basic things.

Any ideas anybody?

TIA,

Rob
 
Hi Rob. It appears that your file repository might have become corrupted.
You might want to try reinstalling your SP2 database and see if that fixes
the problem. This should not affect your configurations (except to make
them build correctly).

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Hi Matt and thanks for your reply.

Reinstalling the database didn´t help.

This problem actually didn´t occur on every build, but more and more
frequently until I can´t create a single build without this problem.
The "funny" thing is that this seems to be the only affected application in
the build, everything else is OK.
When clicking Internet Explorer on the start menu it returns " (null) is not
a valid Win32 application " and from Explorer returns " IEXPLORE.EXE is not
a valid Win32 application ".
I don´t know if this can be useful information, but I´ve also noticed that
on at least one occassion most folders have changed into e.g. "Docume~1",
but "Program Files" and "Internet Explorer" are intact. However this didn´t
affect IEXPLORE.EXE.

Is it possible that corrupted repositories might cause this error just
occasionally?
Any ideas anybody?
In the mean time I´ll wipe out the DB & repository files once more...

Thanks in advance,
Rob
 
Hi again.....
Repaired SP1 database, uninstalled SP2 and its repository files, upgraded to
SP2 again - still no luck!!
Furthermore I discovered that HyperTerminal and WordPad returns the same
error.
Has anyone else ever had the same problem?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

BR,
(Unhappy) Rob
 
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