Re: Windows 2003 Server Desktop/Explorer Crashes on Startup

Try creating a new user (or booting into safe mode to do this) and login as
the new user. Will this resolve the issue?

Or try logging into admistrator. Do you have this issue?

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<> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I need some help. I startup my windows 2003 server, login and just
> after 'loading settings', the desktop appears without taskbar or icons
> (only the wallpaper). I can start up office programs such as word and
> excel, notepad, regsvr etc. via the task manager; but I cannot start up
> explorer.exe (neither iexplore.exe). This seems to suggest a problem
> with explorer.exe. I checked the corresponding registry key and it
> seemed intact. When I try to start up MMC I get an error that it has
> not been properly installed or that the registry is corrupted. But I
> don't think that the registry has been corrupted. This problem started
> right after I noticed that I was getting a microsoft antti-spyare
> error. I rebooted and that's when it all started.
>
> By the way, I accessed the startup programs via the task manager
> (msconfig) and noticed that there was a ukrucsl.exe program in a
> Gucexol directory amongst the othet enabled startup programs. This
> seems a bit odd: somehow I think this is a rogue prgram that might have
> been the cause of it all. In any case, I disabled this program and
> eventualy all the startup programs, but the problem yet persists. I
> can't delete the rogue prgram because the directory it is in is hidden
> andI can't get to the file manager menu to view hidden files and
> folders.
>
> What I would like to do as a possible solution is to replace the
> explorer.exe since this may have been damaged (although it's size is 1
> MB as it should be); but I don't know how to extract this from my
> windows server installation cd (I don't know in which .cab file it
> resides or how to extract files from a cab file).
>
> Can anyone offer any advice? I need to get back on my comp ASAP.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John Mencias
>

Try opening Run (or recovery console) and:

sfc /scannow

IF this doesn't work,

chkdsk c: /f

If this doesn't work,

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

(Create a Win2003 Boot disk and and copy the registry repair files from the
above download link).



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<> wrote in message
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> Hi Jabez,
>
> Thanks for helping. I am the Administrator: it is a standalone server
> that I use for my application development work! I have already tried
> booting through safe mode and the same problem crops up.
>
> John
>

Slipstream Windows Server 2003:
http://www.petri.co.il/windows_2003_...pstreaming.htm

Can you elaborate why you cannot run CHKDSK on your system drive? Try
running in Recovery Console.

Create a Win2003 Boot disk:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;325879

But once done, copy the registry fixing files from the boot disk that you
created from the Win2000 Registry repair thingy.

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<> wrote in message
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> Hi Jaben,
>
> Thanks again for keeping on top of my case. I am very sure that my
> problem is related to the explorer.exe or one of the dlls that it is
> dependent on.
>
> In any case, I followed your instructions above. Scannow started but
> kept asking me to insert the setup cd so that it could put files into
> the dll cache. Each time I did so, it failed with error "wrong cd". Is
> this because the cd has the original version of 2003 server whilst my
> current installation has already been upgraded with service pack 1? If
> so, how can I "integrate" sp1 unto my setup cd? I beleive that if I get
> this going, I might solve the problem.
>
> I also did a chkdsk, but I can't run this on the current drive (on
> which the os is installed). So I did not get any results there.
>
> Your last suggestion to create a win2003 boot disk: the link gives info
> for 2000 server; is this okay for 2003 as well?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> John
>

Let me suggest that you start backing up important files (or imaging your
hard disk) and get a new hard disk ready (or do a reformat on the curent
machine) and restore the data onto it.

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<> wrote in message
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> Hi Jabez,
>
> I ran chdsk (on the drive that contains the w2k3 installation of
> concern) via the recovery console and got this message "The volume
> appears to have one or more unrecoverable problems". Is this talking
> about 'bad sectors' (hardware problem) or could ?
>
> John
>