Can't restore Windows Explorer!!

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Bought a new laptop that had a disk crash. They replaced the
hard-drive and shadow copied info from old to new hard-drive.

Unfortunately, the Windows Explorer file was corrupted and the
explorer would not startup -- so I copied a new Vista's Windows
Explorer from another laptop and planned to copy it over.

File write-over denied. So I went to Task Manager, killed the
explorer -- and had Command Prompt setup -- since desktop
functions became disabled. Command Prompt was opened
"As Administrator" and I found my self in the c:\windows\system32
directory -- where I had file permissions to copy-over.

But, when I tried to copy the new file into the c:\windows directory,
I got a permission denied and could do nothing in that directory.

PLEASE tell me the secret to replace Windows Explorer....
I am in big trouble.

Thanks,
Dave
 
Re: Can't restore Windows Explorer!!

In any case WFP should have kicked in anyways maybe this would help

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/929833



"DaveFash" <DaveFash@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DFBA4FB4-D28C-478C-9939-E4E8066793AC@microsoft.com...
> Bought a new laptop that had a disk crash. They replaced the
> hard-drive and shadow copied info from old to new hard-drive.
>
> Unfortunately, the Windows Explorer file was corrupted and the
> explorer would not startup -- so I copied a new Vista's Windows
> Explorer from another laptop and planned to copy it over.
>
> File write-over denied. So I went to Task Manager, killed the
> explorer -- and had Command Prompt setup -- since desktop
> functions became disabled. Command Prompt was opened
> "As Administrator" and I found my self in the c:\windows\system32
> directory -- where I had file permissions to copy-over.
>
> But, when I tried to copy the new file into the c:\windows directory,
> I got a permission denied and could do nothing in that directory.
>
> PLEASE tell me the secret to replace Windows Explorer....
> I am in big trouble.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
 
Re: Can't restore Windows Explorer!!

Correction I pasted the wrong link.... dave, my mistake please use this link
rather

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936212/en-us


"DaveFash" <DaveFash@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DFBA4FB4-D28C-478C-9939-E4E8066793AC@microsoft.com...
> Bought a new laptop that had a disk crash. They replaced the
> hard-drive and shadow copied info from old to new hard-drive.
>
> Unfortunately, the Windows Explorer file was corrupted and the
> explorer would not startup -- so I copied a new Vista's Windows
> Explorer from another laptop and planned to copy it over.
>
> File write-over denied. So I went to Task Manager, killed the
> explorer -- and had Command Prompt setup -- since desktop
> functions became disabled. Command Prompt was opened
> "As Administrator" and I found my self in the c:\windows\system32
> directory -- where I had file permissions to copy-over.
>
> But, when I tried to copy the new file into the c:\windows directory,
> I got a permission denied and could do nothing in that directory.
>
> PLEASE tell me the secret to replace Windows Explorer....
> I am in big trouble.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
 
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