Then, close the registry editor, and do a power cycle (restart your PC, shutting it down completely, turn it off, then turn it back on using the button. If this value is NOT set exactly as I mentioned. The value data should read exactly this: C:\Windows\system32\userinit.exe, Scroll down in the same pane, and find Userinit. find that and double-click (or right click then choose 'modify') the value data should read EXACTLY THIS: explorer.exe If it does NOT say this, or says ANYTHING else, change it so that is says simply: explorer.exe There should be two things we are looking for here. Then navigate yourself to the right pane.
Don't worry about a password unless your account requires one. Right click this, and choose run as: Then choose your local admin, on the user that you are currently logged into. Then hit the letter 'R' until you see the icon for REGEDIT. To open regedit, go to computer/your OS (should be 圆4 or C:/)/windows Oh and also hidden files wont unhide themselfs I have read some other posts and they mention iexplorer.exe that isnt running on my computer (that im aware of) and I cant find the file.
I restartedmy computer and this time windows ran but with the same issues, I can run regedit because it is a.
I managed to get windows (sort of) working by trying to open things from my firefox download list using explorer.exe and now I have my desktop files and the start bar and can open folders but and programs wont work, I managed to run a scan using my McAfee by right clicking on my computer and clicking scan it treated about 5000 somthings.
So I restarted it again and before the blue screen there was options to load in safe mode (some other variations of safe mode) normal windows and to load windows using the last settings that worked, I tried normal windows first and that came up with the blue screen again, however the third time I noticed the last working settings option and that loaded windows, or rather I was logged on but the only thing there was my desktop picture, so I Ctrl + Alt + Del and got the task manager and tried run explorer.exe and it came up with the error sign saying windows doesn't know what program to run this withso either choose from list of programs or search the internet, so first I try and use explore.exe to run explorer.exe, and yea that didnt work. To start of with my computer restarted and and would not load, the blue screen came up saying windows had shut down to protect my files. Im quite sure I downloaded a virus (well when I eventually managed to do a scan there were somthing like 5000 issues!!)