vista won't boot explorer.exe

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the_real_stig!

hey

i just instaled antoher 2gb of ram and antoher hard drive and so i had to
instal vista again. now , a day later, when i boot it get's to the welcome
screen and then it just boots my documents but not eplorer.exe.
 
Hi,

I've seen this happen a few times. The winlogon shell entry in the registry
contains the wrong information. Close the documents folder and open Task
Manager by hitting ctrl+shift+escape. On the applications tab, click 'new
task' and type regedit, then click ok. Expand the branches to reach:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Double click the shell string in the right pane and delete the current
value, replace it with just "explorer.exe" (no quotes). Click ok and close
the registry editor, then reboot the machine.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
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