damaged explorer.exe

shifty · 23 Aug 2008 at 19:23

Hi guys im in a bit of a hole and I cant get out, basically I picked up a nasty case of a trogen and in wiping it of it heavily damaged files on my OS the main one being explorer.exe , which doesnt load on startup it does manually but that no good , ive been doing a bit of googling and I need to repair it but I cant figure out how,

So can anyone help.

shifty · 23 Aug 2008 at 19:35

I appologise for my ignorance but regedit is that an xp tool or do I need to download it.

shifty · 23 Aug 2008 at 19:39

found regedit but that command line you wrote is not there

shifty · 23 Aug 2008 at 20:16

No dice the shell file was there on HKLM and was set as explorer and I had to stick it in on th hkcu option you sugested rebooted but no change.