My windows 98Se computer has stopped working. I don’t know why. It was functioning perfectly normal this morning, and this afternoon when i was online after school. I tried to use it now, only 15 minutes after it had been working perfectly, and it won’t boot. All i had done was open some videos, and get on AIM. It froze when closing a video, and i shut it off. When i turned it back on, the error began.
The computer turns on, and makes it past the POST, bios, and logon screen ok. Then, a few seconds after i enter my username and password, i get a “Explorer.exe” crash notice, and the machine stops booting. It just locks up right there.
I know this could really be anything, but your help would be greatly appreciated. Is there any way i can get around running explorer? Can i try replacing explorer with a different shell (like AstonShell or another window manager)? Is there some way i can boot Explorer.exe off of a Windows Startup disk? Is there a diagnostic tool for windows, that will tell me more specifically what the error is?
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I don’t think there is a way to bipass running explorer. I’m sure this isn’t the case, but restart and make sure the same thing doesn’t happen again. I recently had my laptop reformatted and shortly after I got a similar problem, but it only happened once.
I’m afraid I can’t say much more, for I’m not even sure you can run 98 in safe mode if explorer doesn’t work. Give it a try and see if you can backup your vital files before you reformat.