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Old 12-30-2002, 09:40 AM   #1
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explorer or xp error

I 've recently reinstalled XP cuz of the mass of error messages tht appear for no decent reason, & I install everything & finally get my internet connection up, I try to press explorer & one those annoying boxes appear "sorry........has to close report or not" so I'm well annoyed, I find out i can actually get on the net by going to documents or something & typing an addy there& then i discover once one window is open I can use the explorer icon to access the net again, but this happens everytime I restart. Has anyone had these problems & knows how to solve them bcuz i tryed to get rid of these errors not start them up again.
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Old 12-30-2002, 10:21 AM   #2
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did you do a clean install of winxp or just instaled over the top
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Old 12-30-2002, 10:23 AM   #3
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i wiped everything b4 i installed again, & reformated etc, & moved all files over to my spare huddy & then I moved em back when i finished
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Old 12-30-2002, 10:32 AM   #4
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did you just copy and past your hole drive or just the my doc stuf
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Old 12-30-2002, 10:34 AM   #5
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I seperated everything into catogories, music, videos, documents & saved games etc, i didnt just copy say program files & dump it all back in ( as the registry would mess up )
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try start run cmd. then in the dos boxtype sfc/scannow and have your winxpcd in the drive this is the xp version of the win98 systom file checker
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just did tht & it didnt say anything just stopped when it had finished
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Old 12-30-2002, 11:05 AM   #8
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I'm working my way through installing the updates I'm hoping one of them will help.
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Old 12-30-2002, 01:10 PM   #9
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okey done them all & it doesn't seem to have changed anything, but the explorer seems to be random on whether it will open or not first time round ( still once one is open another will open )
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Old 12-30-2002, 01:30 PM   #10
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are you on broadband or dialup internet acces
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Old 12-30-2002, 01:33 PM   #11
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dial-up but its okey now, i installed the freeserve browser & tht seems to have sorted it ( hopefully ) thx though just seems a bit dodgy on why it happened
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Old 12-30-2002, 01:41 PM   #12
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if it hapans agen try to make a manuall conection to the web by starting your modem before you click ie if it works then you will nead to deleat the ie shortcut and recreat it
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cheers i hope i won't need to though
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