Explorer closes

[nesredep egrob]

I am wondering if anyone has an explanation. My Windows Explorer closes down
from time to time. Occasionally nothing much happens except I get asked to send
a message to Microsoft - and that is a fat lot of good now that they have
Windows 7 up and running.

I seem to remember that I was already with MS even before 95 and have spent
money every time there was an update - soon as the update was on there was
nothing in the way of assistance from MS forcing you to go for the new one. I
understand it as that is a good selling trick as long as people are
understanding enough to buy the new version.

I am even a little suspicious that one of the latest updates on SP3 might have
been the couse or it. My check on the net showed that there was some 3.5 million
mentions about that and everybody was troubled - I can of course go back to
September or even earlier and stay there ignoring all updates from then onward
and that might be the only cure - anyone solved the problem, please

B|rge in sunny Perth, Australia

[neil[_2_]]

Are you viewing any particular type of file in the folder when explorer
closes. I had an issue with the latest version of DivX when there are movies
in the folder. Removed version 7 and installed version 6.etc and its not
done it since.
Neil
"nesredep egrob" <Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40> wrote in message
...
>I am wondering if anyone has an explanation. My Windows Explorer closes
>down
> from time to time. Occasionally nothing much happens except I get asked to
> send
> a message to Microsoft - and that is a fat lot of good now that they have
> Windows 7 up and running.
>
> I seem to remember that I was already with MS even before 95 and have
> spent
> money every time there was an update - soon as the update was on there was
> nothing in the way of assistance from MS forcing you to go for the new
> one. I
> understand it as that is a good selling trick as long as people are
> understanding enough to buy the new version.
>
> I am even a little suspicious that one of the latest updates on SP3 might
> have
> been the couse or it. My check on the net showed that there was some 3.5
> million
> mentions about that and everybody was troubled - I can of course go back
> to
> September or even earlier and stay there ignoring all updates from then
> onward
> and that might be the only cure - anyone solved the problem, please
>
> B|rge in sunny Perth, Australia

[John Wunderlich]

nesredep egrob <Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40> wrote in
:

> I am wondering if anyone has an explanation. My Windows Explorer
> closes down from time to time. Occasionally nothing much happens
> except I get asked to send a message to Microsoft - and that is a
> fat lot of good now that they have Windows 7 up and running.
>
> I seem to remember that I was already with MS even before 95 and
> have spent money every time there was an update - soon as the
> update was on there was nothing in the way of assistance from MS
> forcing you to go for the new one. I understand it as that is a
> good selling trick as long as people are understanding enough to
> buy the new version.
>
> I am even a little suspicious that one of the latest updates on
> SP3 might have been the couse or it. My check on the net showed
> that there was some 3.5 million mentions about that and everybody
> was troubled - I can of course go back to September or even
> earlier and stay there ignoring all updates from then onward and
> that might be the only cure - anyone solved the problem, please
>
> B|rge in sunny Perth, Australia
>

It happens to me every once in a while, too. Since the principal
purpose of Explorer is to display and manipulate directories and files,
it is possible that you might have a corrupted directory somewhere on
your drive that throws Explorer for a loop. If you haven't done it
lately, try running a 'checkdsk /f' on your hard drive to make sure
your directories are in good shape. I do it as regular maintenance and
it certainly couldn't hurt.

"How to perform disk error checking in Windows XP"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265>

HTH,
John

[Gerry]

John

Have you noticed anything odd about the original post?

When you open the message instead of seeing the message in
the message source ( not included below ) you see the last Outlook
Express message you opened. I am wondering whether this is malware or
some corruption in Outlook Express. As it only occurs with this
particular newsgroup message I suspect malware.

I do not generally get malware. Two infections in 12 years. I have not
read of a similar experience. Has anyone else encountered it?

TIA


--


Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


John Wunderlich wrote:
> nesredep egrob <Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40> wrote in
> :
>
>> I am wondering if anyone has an explanation. My Windows Explorer
>> closes down from time to time. Occasionally nothing much happens
>> except I get asked to send a message to Microsoft - and that is a
>> fat lot of good now that they have Windows 7 up and running.
>>
>> I seem to remember that I was already with MS even before 95 and
>> have spent money every time there was an update - soon as the
>> update was on there was nothing in the way of assistance from MS
>> forcing you to go for the new one. I understand it as that is a
>> good selling trick as long as people are understanding enough to
>> buy the new version.
>>
>> I am even a little suspicious that one of the latest updates on
>> SP3 might have been the couse or it. My check on the net showed
>> that there was some 3.5 million mentions about that and everybody
>> was troubled - I can of course go back to September or even
>> earlier and stay there ignoring all updates from then onward and
>> that might be the only cure - anyone solved the problem, please
>>
>> B|rge in sunny Perth, Australia
>>
>
> It happens to me every once in a while, too. Since the principal
> purpose of Explorer is to display and manipulate directories and
> files, it is possible that you might have a corrupted directory
> somewhere on your drive that throws Explorer for a loop. If you
> haven't done it lately, try running a 'checkdsk /f' on your hard
> drive to make sure your directories are in good shape. I do it as
> regular maintenance and it certainly couldn't hurt.
>
> "How to perform disk error checking in Windows XP"
> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265>
>
> HTH,
> John

[John Wunderlich]

"Gerry" > wrote in
:

> John
>
> Have you noticed anything odd about the original post?
>
> When you open the message instead of seeing the message in
> the message source ( not included below ) you see the last Outlook
> Express message you opened. I am wondering whether this is malware
> or some corruption in Outlook Express. As it only occurs with this
> particular newsgroup message I suspect malware.
>
> I do not generally get malware. Two infections in 12 years. I have
> not read of a similar experience. Has anyone else encountered it?
>
> TIA
>

Sorry, Gerry, I don't use Outlook Express. I use Xnews.
I saw nothing unusual about the original post.

Good Luck,
John

[nesredep egrob]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:09:56 -0000, "neil" > wrote:

>Are you viewing any particular type of file in the folder when explorer
>closes. I had an issue with the latest version of DivX when there are movies
>in the folder. Removed version 7 and installed version 6.etc and its not
>done it since.
>Neil
>"nesredep egrob" <Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40> wrote in message

No indeed I thought of that - I have therefore spent some time on a game called
Freespace or something like that and in the middle of a game which is very
simple it comes up with that message.

Børge in sunny Perth, Australia

...
>>I am wondering if anyone has an explanation. My Windows Explorer closes
>>down
>> from time to time. Occasionally nothing much happens except I get asked to
>> send
>> a message to Microsoft - and that is a fat lot of good now that they have
>> Windows 7 up and running.
>>
>> I seem to remember that I was already with MS even before 95 and have
>> spent
>> money every time there was an update - soon as the update was on there was
>> nothing in the way of assistance from MS forcing you to go for the new
>> one. I
>> understand it as that is a good selling trick as long as people are
>> understanding enough to buy the new version.
>>
>> I am even a little suspicious that one of the latest updates on SP3 might
>> have
>> been the couse or it. My check on the net showed that there was some 3.5
>> million
>> mentions about that and everybody was troubled - I can of course go back
>> to
>> September or even earlier and stay there ignoring all updates from then
>> onward
>> and that might be the only cure - anyone solved the problem, please
>>
>> B|rge in sunny Perth, Australia
>