computer load up problems

Sounds like Explorer is corrupted - bummer. Anyhow, HERE'S what to try first, before giving up and re-installing Windows. If that doesn't help, try plans B and C:

Plan B

Plan C


Good luck.


Oh, BTW - if you don't have a Win9x Emergency Boot Floppy, any machine running Win9x//ME can make one, or you can download one from HERE

Thank you very much I try these things and see what happens.

Ok last night when I was reading your response I some how missed the first plan of attack "HERE'S" and went straight to plan B, which should have made me think, but I guess I was a little tired. Anyways I tried plan B and I typed what it told me to type but it said the file was not found so I typed "ren explorer.exe explorer.old" and it said the same thing, but then I tried different ways off typing things and I typed in "ren explorer.exe explorer.old" again and it worked. Thinking that something would happen I proceeded to type it in againg when nothing did happen and it said "Duplicate file in use" or somethine like that. I then restarted my computer by pressing Crtl, Alt, Delete; before I had been pressing the restart/reset button which obviously was not right, because nothing happened that time. However this time when it was beginning to start up instead of bringing up the illegal operation message it said "The file 'c:\explorer.exe' is not a valid Ms-Dos program file. It may be damaged. Should I now try the "HERE'S" or what?

Give it a shot - if you can get there - hope you don't hafta reinstall Windows first - that would suck. Do you have a Windows install disk?

To be honest I don't know. lol