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explorer freeezinf when booting Win2000

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by robw

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Every time I boot a Win2000 Pro workstation, explorer freezes. To recover I have to go to Task manager, End task on explorer. I then have to run explorer.exe from the new task button.
I removed all entries in the RUN key in the registry. That didn't work.
I then tried safe mode with networking. Same problem occurred. Any suggestions?

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by rowanth

Did you clean out the boot.ini files?
If not here goes;
After you start your computer with the four Windows 2000 boot floppy disks,
delete all the partitions on your hard disk, and reformat the drive, the
Boot.ini file displays the previous bootoptions.
This behavior has existed since Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 and has not changed.
This precaution is taken to keep from accidentally deleting access to existing
operating systems.

To remove previous options, open the Boot.ini file in a text editor and modify it
to contain only the appropriate options.

Additional query words:
Keywords : kbenv kbsetup KBW2KHOME
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo

by robw

Some sort of corruption occured in the drive mappings. Once I disconnected all mappings it worked. Wierd eh?

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