Shoutbox

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
1GB DDR RAM
BFG GeForce 7600 GT OC
200 Gb HDD

Just over a year old

Is there anything else you would like to know?

Thanks for your help

Robert

Have a look here -
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/archive/index.php/t-39693.html

I'm not sure the solution that duck! provided will work, since that is to do with explorer.exe never being loaded in the first place.

I would suspect that it is malware, and you should look for a scanner that can remove them (or give you the file location).

Thanks for the link duck!. However, the registry entries mentioned in that forum are all present and correct in my registry. I don't think that this is the problem. Strangely, AVG AntiSpyware no longer reports any malware, yet the problem persists.

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http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
http://www.bootcd.us/BartPE_Plugins_Repository.php