Cannot open Control Panel

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Sorry i forgot to include this.

Dell Dimension 2400
P4 2.6 Gig
160Gig HD
1 Gig RAM
ATI Radeon 9250 128 MB DDR]
Windows XP Home

"Bryanlee" wrote:

> Whenever i try to open the control panel i get an error that says windows
> explorer has encountered an error and needs to close. This only happens
> whenever i try to open control panel. I have formatted my hard drive and
> reinstalled windows xp twice and i have also scanned for viruses, trojans,
> spyware and everything else that i can think of. I scanned my drive and it
> came up with no errors on the drive. I checked the Event Viewer and this is
> what is says under the description of the error.
>
> "Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0 2900.2180, faulting module
> shell32.dll, version 6.0.2900.2578, fault address 0x0002ac20."
>
> Source: Application Error
> Event ID: 1000