Help Explorer does not work - how can I circumnavigate it?

Question

All the anti virus, spykiller, malware removal software appears to use Windows Explorer to run, This crashes, I need to remove a folder and all its subs. How please! Thanks Pete,

Answer 1

One thing which you can do is to start the PC in safe mode, by repeatedly pressing F8 when on the BIOS startup screen (it will either have a logo of your PC / motherboard manufacturer or a count of how much RAM you have).

When pressing F8, you will be presented with a menu. If you're using Windows XP / 2000, choose "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" or, with Windows 9x, choose Safe Mode Command Prompt".

What you need to do next depends, once again on your operating system.

Windows 9x / Me
From the command prompt, type in the following:

DELTREE "path"

But, replace "path" with the actual folder that you wish to delete so, for instance, if you wanted to delete "Activision" from the "Program Files" folder, on the C: drive, you could do the following:

DELTREE "C:\Program Files\Activision"

Make sure you DO put the quotes in, otherwise DOS will complain about the spaces in filenames.

Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista

The command from the prompt to delete a folder (and subfolders) is:

RD /S "path"

The "path" part is exactly the same as for Win9x / Me above. Using the example above as well, the command would be

RD /S "C:\Program Files\Activision"

Once again, you will be asked for confirmation before the file is deleted.

If you're having trouble getting to a command prompt, but can see the mouse cursor on screen, press Ctrl-Shift-Esc all at the same time on Windows 2000/XP/2003/VISTA to get the task manager. From there, go to the File menu, select "New Task (run)" and, in the box that appears, type

CMD

and press enter. You will then be given a command prompt.

Hope this helps :-)

Answer 2

If your using IE 7
Unlimited installation support is available by phone at no charge until November 1, 2007 866-234-6020

Upgrade to IE 7 and if it still doesn't work you have free tech. support from Microsoft.

They helped me. IE 7 would not work and the problem was solved when I removed the Google and Yahoo toolbars in Safe mode.

Answer 3

You only need to do a search on here to see how many people are having problems with IE. The best thing to do is download Mozilla Firefox available from http://www.mozilla.com/ Its faster, more user friendly, easily customisable to suit your needs and no problems.

Answer 4

Get it through "My Computer" or Start>Run and type in the name of the file.
Or search for the file, once its been found delete it by pressing delete

Answer 5

i downloaded ie 7 and after 7 days uninstalled it nothing but problems

Answer 6

Easy - download Firefox; incidentally, how are you able to work on this forum?

Answer 7

clean all the temporay files on your system with ccleaner
free
http://www.ccleaner.com