interesting problem

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Hi everybody,

I'm new to the newsgroups etc, and hardly ever use them
however I am really stumped with this one...heres the
situation:

I have a friend whose pc is running XP home..its a Dell,
windows works fine he can open any program except my
computer, windows explorer, internet explorer or anything
to do with explorer. when you try to open any of these
all you get is the error reporting in xp saying that
there was an error...tried virus checking, no viruses,
tried repairing Windows same problem happens, tried
getting updates same thing, I have never seen anything
like this before. any shortcuts that the user has on his
desktop that are programs work great, any folder or file
on the desktop won't open and the error comes up..I am
stumped!!!

Has anyone experienced this before and if so is there a
fix other than reformatting the drive and installing XP
please let me know!!! thanks
 
are you using only the shortcuts on the desktop? Try going from the Start button and doing a search for the programs and try and open them from there...if they work from there, you can create a new shortcut on the desktop and delete the old one...I was having the same problem with my MSN explorer...somehow the shortcut icon on the desktop got misdirected and creating a new shortcut worked fine for me...hope you can figure it out.
 
in a way i did try that...I went to the start menu and
tried opening the my documents, my pictures, my music
folders as well as my computer and always the same thing
an error saying explorer needs to close...it really is an
odd problem...
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are you using only the shortcuts on the desktop? Try
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going from the Start button and doing a search for the
programs and try and open them from there...if they work
from there, you can create a new shortcut on the desktop
and delete the old one...I was having the same problem
with my MSN explorer...somehow the shortcut icon on the
desktop got misdirected and creating a new shortcut
worked fine for me...hope you can figure it out.
 
You might have some corrupted files, let windows try to fin and fix them by
going to Start, Run, and typing sfc /scannow
 
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