[zaussome]

A continuation of my other thread:

Hello,

When I boot into my Vista Home Premium SP1 computer, instead of being greeted by my desktop, instead my Documents folder appears on a black screen and explorer.exe does not run. Does anybody know what could be causing this?

Just incase, here is a hijackthis log: http://stuff.nilved.net/hijackthis.txt

Thanks!

I ran Windows Defender and found that the problem was caused by a trojan. Defender removed it, yet the problem is still not fixed. What's more, by running Task Manager while in the standard-bootup I can see that explorer.exe is running, the same explorer.exe I run to start the main GUI.

Here is what I see when booting the computer: http://stuff.nilved.net/allisee.jpg

Could it be a problem with my explorer.exe or the configuration it is run under? (csrss.exe iirc?) Another interesting note is that if you run Windows Explorer from the start menu, it opens Documents, is it possible that explorer.exe is being run with the configuration of Windows Explorer or something? I'm thinking aloud and have no idea what I'm talking about.

[zaussome]

Again, I hate to bump my own thread, but there are 704 people viewing this forum and not a single person has read this thread...

[zaussome]

Update: Looking in my registry, the shell key is set to Explorer.exe C:/WINDOWS/Config/csrss.exe, but there is no Config folder and thus no csrss. Is it possible that:

1. The malware deleted my config folder.
2. The malware somehow messed with that value.

Again, speaking with no knowledge and completely blind, it seems like running Windows Explorer (from the start menu) runs Explorer.exe (with no parameters,) which creates the standard folder listing (what I see when I boot up,) and since that csrss.exe file doesn't exist, it's defaulting to that behaviour instead of the normal taskbar, desktop etc?

[zaussome]

Problem solved. Changed shell to explorer.exe not Explorer.exe C:/WINDOWS/Config/csrss.exe.

Thanks for your very comprehensive help though.