Explorer restarts every 5 seconds

I bought a Toshiba laptop last month. It has Vista Hom Preium on it and we've
installed Office 2007 Student. Last week it suddenly started restarting
explorer repeatedly. A message startes to fade in on the bottom left of the
screen (Security Center Service not running) and then explorer ends, and
attempts to restart. After ~ 5 seconds it repeats the process. I've restarted
in safe mode with network and it does the same thing. I can't get far enough
into control panel to check the security center settings, but I can get to
the task manager and I looked for a security center process and didn't see
anything that was obvously that.

Any suggestions?
John

When did this start happening?
If it has been a very recent thing, then try a System Restore.

If not, I don't know of any solution other than backing up files and doing a
format/reinstall of the OS.

"John S" wrote
>I bought a Toshiba laptop last month. It has Vista Hom Preium on it and
>we've
> installed Office 2007 Student. Last week it suddenly started restarting
> explorer repeatedly. A message startes to fade in on the bottom left of
> the
> screen (Security Center Service not running) and then explorer ends, and
> attempts to restart. After ~ 5 seconds it repeats the process. I've
> restarted
> in safe mode with network and it does the same thing. I can't get far
> enough
> into control panel to check the security center settings, but I can get to
> the task manager and I looked for a security center process and didn't see
> anything that was obvously that.

Have you tried a system restore to before this problem appeared?

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

John S wrote:
> I bought a Toshiba laptop last month. It has Vista Hom Preium on it and we've
> installed Office 2007 Student. Last week it suddenly started restarting
> explorer repeatedly. A message startes to fade in on the bottom left of the
> screen (Security Center Service not running) and then explorer ends, and
> attempts to restart. After ~ 5 seconds it repeats the process. I've restarted
> in safe mode with network and it does the same thing. I can't get far enough
> into control panel to check the security center settings, but I can get to
> the task manager and I looked for a security center process and didn't see
> anything that was obvously that.
>
> Any suggestions?
> John

Start>programs>accessories>system tools

Have you get Internet Explorer (No add ons) available? If so does that work?

Could this be a malware issue, or similar but unintentional. The Skype
add on trashes this system