Re: Windows explorer crapping out
From: Kim (Kim_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/30/04
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:07:03 -0800
No, I know about the little arrow. That's actually what has been
disappearing along with all the running programs icons. I took Jone Doe's
advice and did a clean up and a scan. It has been a day now and it hasn't
happened yet so hopefuly that took care of it. It was happening about 10
minutes after rebooting. As for the SP2, I have not yet installed it. I'm
afraid to because I've been reading so many problems with it. I'm just going
to do one computer at a time and see how it goes.
Thanks for your input.
"Don Taylor" wrote:
> =?Utf-8?B?S2lt?= <Kim@discussions.microsoft.com> writes:
> >I keep losing the icons of the "running" programs beside the clock
>
> If you are talking about the little icons in the little rectangle
> that includes the clock and which probably has a "<" at the left end
> then it MAY be that Windows is trying to do you a favor here by hiding
> some of these when they aren't changing and it assumes they are just
> cluttering up your screen. If this sounds like what you have then
> put the mouse on top of that little "<", right click it, click on the
> Properties inthe window that pops up and see if "Hide inactive icons"
> has a check next to it. If so you can click on that check to make it
> go away and click OK. That should make it stop hiding them from you.
> You can even go crazy with "Customize" and decide which to hide and
> which to show, but I try to be conservative and not change anything
> I don't really need to.
>
> >and
> >sometimes when I try to open internet explorer it wants to send an error
> >report to microsoft instead of opening.
>
> If you have installed SP2 you might try this
> http://support.microsoft.com/windowsxpsp2
>
> >This also happens sometimes when I
> >try to open any folder in My Documents.
>
> If you have installed SP2 then 200 different people have reported
> problems with Windows Explorer locking up or crashing.
>
> Many see the same problem with control panel, recycle bin, folder
> shortcuts, search, ... all those use the same Windows Explorer to
> do what they do. Many see crash on open, some crash on click, some
> crash on right click. I'm pursuing this one but thus far nobody
> has a clue why this happens or what to do about it. If you want my
> accumulated list of what has been suggested just let me know.
>
> Thus far maybe 5% who have this problem have ever reported getting
> a fix. Hopefully you will be one of the lucky ones.
>
> >I have updated and ran virus scans,
> >ad-aware, spybot and everything seems fine. Now I'm getting the same thing
> >with my Office 2000 programs.
>
> Sounding more like a problem underlying all of these programs,
> rather than the specific "post-Sp2 Windows Explorer bug",
> but that is just a guess rather than some sweeping claim that
> says "your problem IS"
>
> >Please help, I'm afraid I'm going to end up losing everything.
>
> My apologies for the sorry state of software and computer reliability.
>
> Try little things, one at a time, and see if you can find any clues.
>
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