Explorer.exe application not found

if further info is needed let me know

p.s i am running 32bit

and if i dont sort this soon the laptopo goes out the window

and windows itself is running fine? would strike me as odd that you even have a control panel icon to click on if explorer was gone ..
try booting in safe mode and see if it works there - in case you have some malware running that tries to hide stuff from you.
Alternatively try using cmd and check if explorer exists in windows
( dir %systemroot%\explorer.exe )

Also you could try running the service pack 1 install again in case no malware exists (ie the error still exists in safemode)

has now got worse i can not access the internet on my laptop

explorer.exe is there though i checked that first. nod32 said i had a trojan called virut.nbk i have used malwarebites to try to removed but no luck


acer has said uses the ecrecovery to restore to factory settinge but it is passworded and i dont have the password lol

has now got worse i can not access the internet on my laptop

explorer.exe is there though i checked that first. nod32 said i had a trojan called virut.nbk i have used malwarebites to try to removed but no luck


acer has said uses the ecrecovery to restore to factory settinge but it is passworded and i dont have the password lol

sure sounds like malware - there is one out there now which disables browsers and the like

have you tried 'system restore' under backup in control panel? Set system back to before this happened.

I tried that and it didn't work for me. System restore might work but this is what worked for me:



In the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\IEXPLORE.EXE\shell\open\command

Fake AV had hijacked the internet explorer "default" shortcut in the start menu, just set the path there to internet explorer.

I hope this helps someone searching for the answer, I couldn't find it anywhere else.

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