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XP Explorer Dying
Apparently, some time last night there was a short power outage (enough to reboot my system). I logged back in this morning without a problem, and explorer loaded fine; icons, systray, it was all there. The problem, now, is that explorer crashes approximately 3 seconds upon being opened. The mouse works, the keyboard works - but nothing of or related to windows explorer is accessible. This includes the background, icons, start menu, task bar, systray, et cetera. Clicking / right clicking have no effect what-so-ever. I can load up the task manager with ctrl - alt - del, and open other applications through that, but until I use it to kill explorer, everything leaves trails on the background (i.e. it's not being refreshed). There are no error messages, nothing. It's very obnoxious.
I'm running XP Pro, not sure what version exactly (I'm not sure where the information is stored to retrieve it manually with a Run command). I did put the WinXP disk in and ran an installation repair; I used the DOS prompt to run a full CHKDSK /R, and it came up with (and repaired) several bad sectors. I'm wondering if some of those were part of my windows install, and I just need to reinstall the whole blasted OS. It's particularly frustrating, because I was planning on moving tomorrow, but now I'm likely going to have to wait until I get this issue resolved.
Suggestions / comments / requests for more information?
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