Drive names within Explorer completely changed, crashes the moment you

[Corran]

This is so weird, see the screenshot.

This happened after booting up my pc today (running XP Pro SP3).

I had a malware infection days ago and removed it almost completely (apart from random tabs popping up in Firefox).

Last night I ran O&O Defrag and it finished without any problems or errors.

I shut down the pc and then this morning I hung at startup.

Safe mode hung at mup.sys and after some Googling I managed to 'fix' it by copying over the original registry (as detailed here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307545).

Obviously that got me back to how Windows was just after the original install in 2007.

So I restored the backup of the registry I made just days ago.

This fixed everything but gave me this really weird thing in Explorer.

Even though the names are wrong I can still click the C: drive and see all my files and folders.

I can enter any folder but the moment I double click a file it will open the file in the associated program and crash explorer at the same time.

I hope someone has a solution for this!

[Corran]

The issue has been resolved.

[AlanHo]

It would be interesting to hear what you did to resolve it.

It might help others with similar problems.

[Corran]

It would be interesting to hear what you did to resolve it.

It might help others with similar problems.

I managed to fix it partly with SFC, see here: http://www.techsupportforum.com/microsoft-support/windows-xp-support/516534-solved-drive-names-within-explorer-completely-changed-crashes-moment-you-doubl.html

And then the malware with help from here: http://www.computerforum.com/183391-drive-names-within-explorer-completely-changed-crashes-moment-you-double-click.html