My windows Explorer won't open

[Ramos Ross]

Everytime i try to open "any" of files on my computer even the control panel i get a "windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close." message.  So i can't open any file on my computer just Internet Explore or any program on my desktop. Do i need to reinstall.

[Doomsday_J]

What Operating System are you running?

[sadly lost]

I am having the same problem.  It asks me to reinstall windows.  I am using Windows ME.  I want to copy my hard drive to a cd before i reinstall.  What dos command do i need to use?

I want to copy everything in c:/my documents to the CD drive which is D:

Help!

[Ramos Ross]

i'm runnig windows XP

[Doomsday_J]

I am having the same problem.  It asks me to reinstall windows.  I am using Windows ME.  I want to copy my hard drive to a cd before i reinstall.  What dos command do i need to use?

I want to copy everything in c:/my documents to the CD drive which is D:

Help!

copy c:\mydocuments d:

I dont think its gonna work though, you need a cd burner software to write files to a cd unless your running XP, I think. Try it see what happens.   Do you have an extra hard drive lieing around? Hook that up and trahsfer the files to it.

[Doomsday_J]

i'm runnig windows XP

If you were running ME I was gonna suggest reinstalling it or just upgrading. ME is crap.

[Ramos Ross]

 

I was running spybot and i found alot of corrupted files or infected and it gave me the option to remove or repair so i clicked repair and it said it couldn't so i click remove and it said to restart computer so it could erase them before logging since they were being used by computer.  And i did and after that my windows explorer sends a message or pops up a message saying what i explained in the first reply.  So i wonder if spybot could of erased anything in my windows explorer files that could cause this message.

[Doomsday_J]

You have to be careful using that kind of software. I used adaware the one time and got similar results. I couldnt use my internet explorer at all.  I had to download it again because adaware had deleted a file or two that IE needed to run.  I reccomend going to spybots website and asking for help there, more than likely someone there has had a similar problem.