Windows 10: Strange Windows Explorer Issues in W10

Hello all.

Looking to diagnose and troubleshoot (and hopefully fix) an issue with my Toshiba Satellite (A665-S6086) laptop running W10.

As a preface to my short ramble: I have my important files, for the most part, backed up in triplicate on external hard drives. There are some Nintendo GameCube and Wii game backup copies and recently added music files Id like to save if possible. Not a huge deal, however. 95% of my music library is backed up and 100% of my photos are backed up.

I recently spent some time cleaning my laptop up, i.e. scrubbing some files, uninstalling old apps, cleaning out duplicates and orphans, etc. I believe today I may have inadvertently corrupted/deleted/moved a system file that is now causing my windows explorer to act up.

I removed some orphaned files from old programs, ran disk cleanup and disk optimizer then restarted my computer. I did not knowingly delete anything I was unsure of. Upon restart, I am now in a position where:

Start Menu is not accessible
Taskbar Items are gone
Search bar is unresponsive
Task Manager will not open

The only desktop shortcut I usually is the Recycle Bin. It was there at first and I thought I could back door into my files and other programs through there, but my C:\ Drive was not accessible through there either. After restarting once more, even Recycle Bin disappeared from the desktop.

I now have no way to access any programs, utilities, files, etc.

Just hoping someone can maybe walk me through so ideas/fixes.

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Windows Explorer Replacement?

are you running IE7? if not that wouold be my first suggestion,upgrade to ie7 that can fix some stability issues with windows explorer

 

Strange Windows 10 User Account issue.

Unfortunately I had done those steps numerous reboots, it just, reappears for no good reason. The base account isn't even a Microsoft account, it's a local account.

I haven't quite tried the built in administrator account on W10, but so far in my experience on my own computer, the built in account seemed to have absolutely no more control than I did on my own.

It's just strange, I go in, it warns me twice about deleting the account, then it's gone. Reboot, and it's back?

EDIT: Just to specify, both command line and Netplwiz both say only HIS account exists on the computer, it doesn't list this rogue account. This is what I meant in my first post about the fact that even Windows doesn't seem to believe it exists, HALF the time. *Frown

 

Microsoft Internet Explorer renamed to Windows Internet Explorer ?




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