Corrupted index.dat in Cookies caused explorer.exe to crash immediately after logging in to system. Disk error was listed in EventLog, but the event logs were not corrupt and checkdsk said the drive is fine. Discover corrupted file during profile copy. Delete file and reboot to fix. Notice active desktop is in effect and was probably calling Internet Explorer to manage the desktop which caused a cascading effect when it failed to launch.

This is similar to the corrupt index.dat in Temporary Internet Files encountered last week. That system booted fine and launched Internet Explorer, but IE locked up as it was trying to receive web page data.

Cookie trouble on Windows 2000 and the other was Windows XP

 

 

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