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Problem during uninstallation #1921

Open thanone2 opened 1 month ago

thanone2 commented 1 month ago

Describe the bug

IT DELETED explorer.exe WHILE UNINSTALLING!!!!!!!!!

Area of issue

Windows Explorer

To reproduce

Uninstall Freakin' Open Shell!

Expected behavior

For it to not delete explorer.exe

Open-Shell version

Latest

Windows version

Windows 11

Additional context

On my steam deck

ge0rdi commented 1 month ago

It is not possible for Open-Shell installer to uninstall Explorer.

Maybe what you experienced was that installer asked to restart Explorer (because it still used Open-Shell binaries that were going to be deleted), but then Explorer didn't start and you saw empty screen. This happens from time to time (not only for Open-Shell) and we have no clue why.

If you are in such situation, press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to run Task manager and then start Explorer via File -> Run new task.

thanone2 commented 1 month ago

I already did this and explorer.exe was missing from system32, I even restarted the computer and nothing happened, then I just reset windows.

ge0rdi commented 1 month ago

explorer.exe was missing from system32

Explorer is located in C:\Windows\explorer.exe. There is no need to browse for it, just type explorer in the dialog and run it.

I even restarted the computer and nothing happened

Blank screen again? Then I guess something blocked Explorer from running. Hard to tell what.

then I just reset windows

I assume you are no longer able to replicate the issue, right?

thanone2 commented 1 month ago

I don't want to replicate this issue also I searched other places btw, plus I searched for it first and it said "not found"

ge0rdi commented 1 month ago

Oki, so I guess we can close this issue as there is nothing we can do with it.