Windows 10: Explorer.exe blank error when using Load registry key

So most of you must be knowing about the "Load" registry entry in

Code: "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows"[/quote] Basically, whatever path to exe you put inside this registry entry, will load at start up.

There's a lot of information about this on the internet, if you get this error just delete the Load registry key... etc.

Now, in my case I want to use this key to load a program on startup but whenever I try to put any path in this key, I get the blank Explorer.exe error. Already tested on 3 Windows 10 machines with Build 15063, all 3 machines give the same error. *Sad


Anyone know more about this?

:)

 

Black Screen after a couple of minutes after windows 10 login on HP Probook 6560b

A past virus infection can stop Explorer.exe from running. This happens after the actual virus file has been removed but the registry entry that causes it to load when explorer is loaded remains. As Explorer cannot load the virus it does not load at
all so you will not find it listed under Task Manager and you won't be able to launch it manually. However if you copy explorer.exe to explorer2.exe then explorer2.exe should run.

 

Explorer and task bar crashing and resetting when trying to load files.

Can you check if the following registry key exists:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\explorer.exe

 

Yes, the same odd looking error here. Any reason, you want to use that particular key?

 

No reason actually, this error started popping up on some of my office PCs so I decided to dig in a little deep.

Also, I partially solved it. If I add a comma (,) at the end of the path it works. Error goes away.

But if the entire path has a single space in it, it will still give the Explorer.exe error.
I tried using double and single quotes but that too didn't work. *Sad