XP Home: DEP killing explorer.exe at boot

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Camuel

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I had a BSOD telling me that user32.dll was corrupt. I restored user32.dll in the recovery console and now it boots into XP, but then I get a message that DEP has killed Windows Explorer and I'm left looking at my desktop image and have a moving cursor. I can bring up Task Manager with Ctrl Shift Esc but New Task doesn't bring up a run box.

I've tried booting into Safe Mode and the same thing happens. Is there another system file I can recover that will fix this? Or any other solutions?

It's XP Home Edition XP3.
 
I would suspect that your system is most likely infected. You basically have 2 options at this point.

1. Insert the XP cd and do and do a repair install of XP

or

2. boot to the recovery console and perform a "system retore" using the following procedure.

http://www.myfixes.com/articles/system

Start at B on that page where it says perform the system restore, skip the disk check and fix boot procedure.
 
I just tried the system restore method and it didn't work, so I'm going for the repair install. Thanks for pointing out that link John. It was most helpful!
 
What happened when you did the restore? Did you choose a restore point back far enough? Did every command you perform complete correctly? It should have worked.
 
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