How to Fix Explorer.exe Errors Safely

You may have encountered with the following situation: when you boot your computer, all the icons on the desktop appear to be fine at fist. But when you double-click on one, it will close in a flash. When you desktop drops, all you can get is just a background.

This is considered as an explorer.exe related error. Instead of rebooting your system every time when your explorer.exe files corrupted, you may want to take a look at the following information and see how you can fix this. Or you can run a quick exe errors scan before to see if there are any infections.

What is Explorer.exe?

It is an executable file for Windows Explorer that is included with the Microsoft Windows operation system. Explorer is developed by Microsoft, which provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems. And explorer.exe is created to navigate or browse files.

Explorer.exe is a safe file and should not be disabled due to the proper work of applications in your computer. As there might be some errors related to this file, a quick exe errors scan is recommended to identify possible threats to your system.

How to Fix Explorer.exe Related Problems?

Chances are that some third-party shell extensions are causing problems, which is the reason why you receive error messages of explorer.exe. You might have installed some applications that adds shortcuts of their own. These options might appear when you right click on the explorer. If these applications are running properly, you will receive error messages from time to time.

Now we are presenting some tips to fix explorer.exe errors:

• For Windows 7x64: copy explorer.exe from the SysWOW64 folder, then paste it into Windows\System32 folder.
• For Windows XP: get to the shutdown dialog, hold on Ctrl+Shift+Alt, then click Cancel.
• For Vista: click Start, hold on Ctrl+Shift, right click on an empty area in the menu, then select Exit Explorer.

After that, open the Task Manager, type in explorer, and click OK.

Additional tips:

1. Hold down the Ctrl+Alt+Del keys to open the Task Manager
2. Click File New Task(run)
3. Type regedit in the Run box
4. Click OK
5. Browse to the registry key as follows:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution.options
6. Delete the explorer key and the ieplorer key in the subkeys.
7. Close the Registry Editor
8. Reboot your system

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