explorer.exe is encountered a problem( ERROR) plz read

[Tupac Amaru Shakur]

sum times wen my comp starts up and i sign on to my account ( windows xp home edition) it says we are sorry explorer.exe has encountered a problem ans has to close blah blah blah u get it right??? wats the problem??? i click on close and my "account" reloads and it says teh same thing reloads and says the same thing, i dont no wat is wrong n e sufggestions?? and another thing it says drwatsondebugger has encountered an error or sumthinglike that should i be worried???

[Sly]

yes. you should be worried. reformat ur pc.

[Auron]

Yeah your best bet is to reformat.

[Tupac Amaru Shakur]

LOL are u serious i cant afford to do that it only does it sumtimes and i do scan disk to it and its fine for a few days or so so ican realy do that reformat my comp its not that old 1 year at teh most

[Dragnskull]

a reformat should be free...if you dont have a reinstall disk then call the company u got yorucomp from (and also check inside your computer, theys ometimes stash them in there incase you bring your comp to a tech to be serviced)

also: on an old 98 i use to use i use to get the same error, but it was a virus (i could tell by the shaudy icon it used) u might wanna check and make sure thats not the case...

[Korittke]

Buy a new compootar.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by dbzfan420

LOL are u serious i cant afford to do that it only does it sumtimes and i do scan disk to it and its fine for a few days or so so ican realy do that reformat my comp its not that old 1 year at teh most

Its better to reformat, then to not have a working computer.

[x42bn6]

Formatting might be the solution here, or a reinstall.

You could also try creating a new user profile in Safe Mode and seeing if the other one is corrupted, though I doubt it.*

[Tupac Amaru Shakur]

reformating is not an option and buy a new comp hellllll no my dad would kill me this computer has been reformated already with in one year i kinda destryoed a very important registry key a while ago not knowing wat i was doing so yeah cant it b fixed with a anti spyware or virus propgram i can use the comp sumtimes i just restart and it starts up like normal this is an annoying problem and i doubt my computer is corrupt i dont do n e hard core hacking or download uber illegal 3rd party software that has risk of damaging a comp so it has to b a simple fixable problem

[Gordon_Freeman]

Well, I would try a reinstall of Windows first. If this does not fix the problem ,however, then a reformat is the answer. It sounds pretty serious if you're getting errors in core Windows files. So, even though you don't want to, you very well may need to. Personally, I'd rather reformat than have a Windows that has problems and may decide to die on me when I actually need it. Another thing is that you could try is Linux .

[Sly]

Yeah, but if you use linux, and then decide to go back to windows, it really ****s up (well mine did)

Reformat. You make it sound like a bad thing, but all in all its the best thing you can do.

[Tupac Amaru Shakur]

is windows explorer and explorer.exe the same thing?? cuz it says windows explorer has encountered a problem not explorer.exe lol i messed up

[Chris]

explorer.exe is the protocol that runs your taskbar. Windows Explorer is a browser for your local machine.

[HeddaLora]

explorer.exe is the same as the program that browses your machine (Windows Explorer).

Before you run and reformat, try deleting your TEMP files. You might just have too many in there. That can cause this problem, because Windows needs to write files to the temp files directory while it's operating, and if that directory has too many temp files, it cannot write to the directory, and it freaks out.

Try doing these basic maintenance actions before going more drastic:

-- Delete all temp files (c:\windows\temp\*.tmp, or on XP C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp)

-- Delete temporary internet files (c:\windows\temporary internet files\*.*, or on XP C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files)

-- If you use I.E., click on Tools, Internet Options, Delete Files, select "delete all off-line content", click OK

-- Click on Start, Programs, Accessories, Systems Tools, Disk Cleanup

-- Download AdAware, check for updates, run it and remove whatever it finds

-- Download Diskeeper and defrag

-- Download, update and turn on SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard (or your spyware removal tool of choice).

[Tupac Amaru Shakur]

awesome thx guys that helped i have succesfully started the comp 2 times since i tryed that and also i ran a antivirus software and found like 8 trogans and 12 unwanted progs so yeah thx alot i new i didnt have 2 reformat the comp am saved

[Chris]

Switch to safer P2P programs and run Spybot when you need to.

[Wing Zero]

yea and try not to go to to many random sites

[Chris]

That is why you either run Mozilla Firefox, or a proxy server off your IE connection.

[Tupac Amaru Shakur]

Originally Posted by HeddaLora

explorer.exe is the same as the program that browses your machine (Windows Explorer).

Before you run and reformat, try deleting your TEMP files. You might just have too many in there. That can cause this problem, because Windows needs to write files to the temp files directory while it's operating, and if that directory has too many temp files, it cannot write to the directory, and it freaks out.

Try doing these basic maintenance actions before going more drastic:

-- Delete all temp files (c:\windows\temp\*.tmp, or on XP C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp)

-- Delete temporary internet files (c:\windows\temporary internet files\*.*, or on XP C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files)

-- If you use I.E., click on Tools, Internet Options, Delete Files, select "delete all off-line content", click OK

-- Click on Start, Programs, Accessories, Systems Tools, Disk Cleanup

-- Download AdAware, check for updates, run it and remove whatever it finds

-- Download Diskeeper and defrag

-- Download, update and turn on SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard (or your spyware removal tool of choice).

lol 4 a total nubie u are smart

[HeddaLora]

LOL! Well, been working with computers for 30 years now. Picked up a few tidbits along the way.