My Windows Explorer is corrupted

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As I recall, with earlier versions of Windows (3.1, W4WG) it was possible to
selectively reinstall individual files. Is this possible with ME?

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Thanks a lot Mike M

"Mike M" wrote:

> Sleepless in New Jersey <SleeplessinNewJersey@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> > As I recall, with earlier versions of Windows (3.1, W4WG) it was
> > possible to selectively reinstall individual files. Is this possible
> > with ME?
>
> Yes. See MS KB129605 - "HOW TO: Extract Original Compressed Windows
> Files" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=129605) and for those files
> protected by Win Me's System File Protection (SFP) mechanism see MS KB
> 265371 - "How to Extract and Replace a Protected File in Windows Me"
> (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=265371).
>
> However don't forget system restore which might help you in allowing you
> to roll your system back to a checkpoint created before any problems
> started, provide, of course, that hat was not more than a few days or
> perhaps a week ago.
> --
> Mike Maltby MS-MVP
> mike.maltby@gmail.com
>
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