File explorer problem....

"Alan " wrote:

Windows Home XP with all updates and service packs.


I've routinely, when I want to move files around, opened two file
explorer windows.

This has never created any problem, except recently.

Frequently, when I open the second window, and click on the FOLDERS
mode button, the window freezes.

Then, if I close the window:
-- by clicking on the X
-- or by doing CNTRL-ALT-DEL and getting the task quitting menu and
quitting that particular, frozen, explorer window

The desktop disappears, then the icons reappear slowly, and the tray
has to be rebuilt -- except that most of the windows aplets which are
usually in the tray (volume control, etc.) don't appear -- only the
program icons appear (Spy sweeper, Norton, etc.)

What the heck????


Alan
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I am TERRIBLY cruel to my cat. I tease him with a vine tendril
until he either jumps up in the air to bat at it or zooms around
in a circle until he gets too dizzy to stand up. What is cruel about
it is that I don't do it nearly as much as he wants me to.

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Unless you have the option set to Launch Windows in a separate process,
killing the Explorer window in Task Manager in essence kills the kernel
shell Explorer.

If you set that option under Folder Options | View, you will get a separate
process from the kernel. When you open Task Manager, you should see
separate Explorer.exe apps running.

When you click 'X' Close, though, this should never happen (dealing with
starting TaskBar, ...).

See if setting this option also fixes the other problem.

"cntrysngr58" wrote in message
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"Alan " wrote:

Windows Home XP with all updates and service packs.


I've routinely, when I want to move files around, opened two file
explorer windows.

This has never created any problem, except recently.

Frequently, when I open the second window, and click on the FOLDERS
mode button, the window freezes.

Then, if I close the window:
-- by clicking on the X
-- or by doing CNTRL-ALT-DEL and getting the task quitting menu and
quitting that particular, frozen, explorer window

The desktop disappears, then the icons reappear slowly, and the tray
has to be rebuilt -- except that most of the windows aplets which are
usually in the tray (volume control, etc.) don't appear -- only the
program icons appear (Spy sweeper, Norton, etc.)

What the heck????


Alan
============================


I am TERRIBLY cruel to my cat. I tease him with a vine tendril
until he either jumps up in the air to bat at it or zooms around
in a circle until he gets too dizzy to stand up. What is cruel about
it is that I don't do it nearly as much as he wants me to.

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