Explorer.exe won’t execute after running Malware Bytes
While cleaning some EXTREMELY infected computers lately, I’ve run into a couple of machines that wouldn’t start explorer.exe. This always happened after a MalwareBytes scan followed by a reboot. Trying to run explorer manually would tell me windows could not find the file, even though I could see it. After a lot of trial and error, here’s a fix that seems to work:
1. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL
2. Click on File > New Task (run)
3. Type regedit in the Run Box and press ENTER
4. Browse to:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ImageFileExecutionOptions
5. Delete the keys explorer.exe and iexplore.exe (only one, or both, may exist)
6. Close Regedit and Restart
