Jeff
December 12th 03, 06:47 PM
Hello,
I first posted about this a few months ago but my thread
seems to be gone now.
On Windows XP Home, 1.4ghz amd tbird, NTFS, all the
hotfixes, sp1, 512mb ram, etc etc, right clicking caused
explorer to completely freeze, it wasn't a 30 second
delay like others posted, but explorer.exe stopped cold.
I had to end task explorer.exe and then launch
explorer.exe to return windows to a functionable state.
It also is not mouse drivers (stop calling it a mouse
problem). When attempting any file operation, copy,
delete, selecting a file and pressing enter, anything
through the explorer gui, explorer to froze. I can delete
files through the dos prompt, and oddly I can drag and
drop files directly to the recycle bin just fine
(although I can't empty the recycle bin without a 3rd
party program). If I drag a file or folder anywhere else
explorer hangs.
Left clicking and right clicking did not help, disabling
effects did not help. Creating a new user account allowed
me to right click and use the explorer gui, but after a
few minutes the new account developed the problem as well.
I thought it was a problem with windows xp home. I ran
into troubles which required me to fdisk and format my
hard drives, I have two, and I thought that that was the
perfect time to upgrade from Home to Pro and eliminate
the right click problem. So I got Pro, and I formatted
again, I took pleasure in overwritting my problem ridden
XP Home repeatedly, and I wanted to make sure every trace
of that problem was gone. So I installed XP Pro, which
again gave me the option to format the drive and I did,
and XP Pro installed great. I could right click! I
disabled all the transistions and windows effects because
I wasn't used to them and I wanted the extra performance.
XP Pro ran great, for about 10 minutes, when dragging and
dropping a file from a CD to my desktop (something the
bug prevented me for doing for ages) explorer froze. So I
ended task on explorer.exe and then launched explorer.exe
as a new task to bring the gui back and right clicked a
file, I froze.
Now this is XP Pro, it didn't run properly long enough to
install SP1, no hotfixes yet, the complete opposite of
what I had before, and it developed the same problem.
Sorry for such the long post, but this problem has been
preventing normal usage of windows for so long and I
wanted to make sure to include enough details. My
computer is perfectly XP compatible, I defrag regularly,
I run a virus scanner, firewall, anti-spyware, anti-
everything malicious, and I'm clueless as to why a
perfectly good OS like XP would keep doing this. XP is
the best OS I've ever used, but it has this one crippling
problem.
Thanks ahead of time for anyone who reads this long post
and can shed some light on the problem.
I first posted about this a few months ago but my thread
seems to be gone now.
On Windows XP Home, 1.4ghz amd tbird, NTFS, all the
hotfixes, sp1, 512mb ram, etc etc, right clicking caused
explorer to completely freeze, it wasn't a 30 second
delay like others posted, but explorer.exe stopped cold.
I had to end task explorer.exe and then launch
explorer.exe to return windows to a functionable state.
It also is not mouse drivers (stop calling it a mouse
problem). When attempting any file operation, copy,
delete, selecting a file and pressing enter, anything
through the explorer gui, explorer to froze. I can delete
files through the dos prompt, and oddly I can drag and
drop files directly to the recycle bin just fine
(although I can't empty the recycle bin without a 3rd
party program). If I drag a file or folder anywhere else
explorer hangs.
Left clicking and right clicking did not help, disabling
effects did not help. Creating a new user account allowed
me to right click and use the explorer gui, but after a
few minutes the new account developed the problem as well.
I thought it was a problem with windows xp home. I ran
into troubles which required me to fdisk and format my
hard drives, I have two, and I thought that that was the
perfect time to upgrade from Home to Pro and eliminate
the right click problem. So I got Pro, and I formatted
again, I took pleasure in overwritting my problem ridden
XP Home repeatedly, and I wanted to make sure every trace
of that problem was gone. So I installed XP Pro, which
again gave me the option to format the drive and I did,
and XP Pro installed great. I could right click! I
disabled all the transistions and windows effects because
I wasn't used to them and I wanted the extra performance.
XP Pro ran great, for about 10 minutes, when dragging and
dropping a file from a CD to my desktop (something the
bug prevented me for doing for ages) explorer froze. So I
ended task on explorer.exe and then launched explorer.exe
as a new task to bring the gui back and right clicked a
file, I froze.
Now this is XP Pro, it didn't run properly long enough to
install SP1, no hotfixes yet, the complete opposite of
what I had before, and it developed the same problem.
Sorry for such the long post, but this problem has been
preventing normal usage of windows for so long and I
wanted to make sure to include enough details. My
computer is perfectly XP compatible, I defrag regularly,
I run a virus scanner, firewall, anti-spyware, anti-
everything malicious, and I'm clueless as to why a
perfectly good OS like XP would keep doing this. XP is
the best OS I've ever used, but it has this one crippling
problem.
Thanks ahead of time for anyone who reads this long post
and can shed some light on the problem.