Note: If your "beta" software has any shell extensions associated with it, that might be the first place to look.
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Note: If your "beta" software has any shell extensions associated with it, that might be the first place to look.
I so wish i still had a restore point available. No idea why it vanished!
Not sure what it means, but i can forward that informationQuote:
Note: If your "beta" software has any shell extensions associated with it, that might be the first place to look.
By the time you figure out what shell extension or other issue is causing your problem with explorer.exe, you could probably have performed a Repair Install, fixed any other issues that might have caused, made an image backup, and reinstalled your last known good "beta" software several times over. Just a thought.
Restore Points are notoriously unreliable, primarily because they are not really under your control. Microsoft decides when to remove them or whether they are "corrupt" and unusable. Image backups, especially on a system used to test beta software, are the only reliable way to prevent issues like the one you are facing now.
Except that i have to get a Windows installation CD, which i don't have.Quote:
By the time you figure out what shell extension or other issue is causing your problem with explorer.exe, you could probably have performed a Repair Install, fixed any other issues that might have caused, made an image backup, and reinstalled your last known good "beta" software several times over. Just a thought.
I'll look at how to create such an image backup, for the next install. I have been a beta tester for 5 years and i NEVER experienced an issue anywhere close to this. Didn't think it could happen!Quote:
Image backups, especially on a system used to test beta software, are the only reliable way to prevent issues like the one you are facing now.
A Windows installation CD, or a repair CD for your particular make and model of computer is always a good thing to have available. Most computers these days ask you to create one when you first set them up, but the vast majority of users never bother to do so.
Your software vendor must be doing a good job of alpha testing. Still, there is always the possibility that they missed something. Now, if you were beta testing Microsoft software, you would never have made it 5 years without an issue.Quote:
I have been a beta tester for 5 years and i NEVER experienced an issue anywhere close to this. Didn't think it could happen!
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Now, if you were beta testing Microsoft software, you would never have made it 5 years without an issue.
What program were you beta testing? Perhaps that might provide more clues about what happened.
Being a beta tester, i'm bound by a non-disclosure agreement, so i can't disclose that information, but i can say it is a graphic program.Quote:
What program were you beta testing? Perhaps that might provide more clues about what happened.
If you do finally decide to do a repair install of Win 7 you can get the iso's here...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/soft...nload/windows7
Sure, i was going to do a windows repair, but nobody in this household has a CD for the correct version, so i was going to wait until tomorrow to get one but if there is a way with that link, i'll likely go for it.
Now, the first sentence mentions a Windows product key. :(
Not sure i will have that. Will check.
The free version of MagicalJellybean keyfinder works..
https://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/
How to find the Windows Product Key:
http://www.howtogeek.com/206329/how-...-product-keys/
https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#h...et+product+key
jdc2000.... that works to get the key. First hurdle passed.