Why I lose IE, WE and theme support

[swesley]

My install seems to go fine but when all done I have no Internet Explorer or Windows

Explorer and not theme support. Windows goes to some sort of classic mode.

Need some ideas about how to fix it. I have replaced i386 folder with fresh copy

but does not help.

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

My install seems to go fine but when all done I have no Internet Explorer or Windows

Explorer and not theme support.  Windows goes to some sort of classic mode.

Need some ideas about how to fix it.  I have replaced i386 folder with fresh copy

but does not help.

Did you reduce size of source?

[swesley]

No I did not. Original i386 folder with exception of three files. It was working fine for the last 4 months. Now I cant seem to fix it.

[prathapml]

Do you have something like the below in your winnt.sif ?

[Shell]
   CustomDefaultThemeFile="%systemroot%\Resources\Themes\Slate.theme"
   DefaultStartPanelOff=No
   DefaultThemesOff=No

[Alanoll]

it's kinda hard to not have Windows Explorer, as it uses the explore.exe that Windows uses to load Perhaps you're just missing the shortcuts? As for theme support, check in services.msc to see if the Themes service is Started/Disabled.