Win XP Prof. - Problem

[mckennaiii]

When booting up computer the following error comes up.
Please advise how to correct this problem.
Thankx,
Bill

Explorer.exe
Application Error
Host integrity check failed
The application failed to initialized properly
(oxc0000005)
*Screen has background but no icons
Also, under My Recent Documents – nothing shows up

[Kobalt]

reformat? *shrugs*

[mckennaiii]

so is there a problem with the hard drive?

[mckennaiii]

Dell tech support said to turn the computer off, re-start and hit F8 and go into safe mode and click on restore and follow the prompts and I did that and presto, everything is back to normal.

[Kobalt]

lol...dell