Kelly's Recent IE Crashes/Browse in New Process

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From: Chad Harris (ddram32_nospam_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:15:13 -0500

Five questions:

Kelly has a recent tweak in her list:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

*Line 313 Right: IE Crashes Browse in New Process*

1) I'm trying to understand what this does. I know it's a regedit, but does
this open a new explorer shell to try to prevent a crash?

2) You can view Kelly's tweaks grouped by topic from a link at the bottom of
th page, but is there *a place on Kelly's site where you can you find a
quick context or explanation ot each tweak for this great, always increasing
list?* I can't always predict from the title what *every* tweak will do
(but can with most).

3) When I get a "sorry for the inconvenience but IE will close" dialogue
box, I have found that a high percent of the time --between 85%-90% I can
stop the crash from closing all open browser windows if there are not
several "not responding" in task manager's list by hitting the Windows Key
+E and opening Windows Explorer and minimizing it to the desktop before I
make the choice to "send info to MS" or not. Does anyone else find this
helpful and know why it seems to work so well? I also get more of these
if resources are nearly exhausted (a very large number of browser windows
open and a number of CPU intensive processes--many that have to be on).
Does this work because you're opening a new instance of explorer or "the
shell?"

4) What's the relationship of IE to "the shell?" What's the relationship of
Windows Explorer to "the shell?"

5) Is there a clear definition of "the shell?"

TIA,

Chad Harris

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