Re: Explorer Freezes When Opening One Folder On Right Pane

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Kelly this is a good answer and it works. Now can you come up with an answer
to stop the problem from happening again?

"Kelly" wrote:

Explorer Crashes - No desktop/Icons/Start Button

Control/Alt/Delete - When the Windows Task Manager dialog box appears, go
to Processes, find Explorer.exe highlight it and choose End Process.

Keep the task manager open then select the File menu and then New Task
(Run). When the Create New Task dialog box appears, type in Explorer and
press the OK button. Windows Explorer should restart complete with the
Taskbar and Start button.

Or see line 319: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

If the folder houses .avi's....

100% CPU usage when using Media Player/AVI files

AVI Search Remove (Line 74)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

And/or- go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll

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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm


"BillW50" <BillW50@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tim Med*** typed on Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:26:11 +0100:
Unfortunately, I can't do anything about your problem with the
"freezing folder" problem.

Except to say, sometimes it's caused by a corruption of data on the
hard-disk.

Running " chkdsk /f " on the drive, might solve the problem.

(Open a 'Command Prompt' (dos-box) windows and type - chkdsk /f -
then you may have to choose [press] the letter [y] to run on next
boot - do this and press [enter] - reboot to run the check)

After running " chkdsk /f " - I would endeavour to delete the
offending folder as well.

Sounds like a very reasonable theory Tim. Except I also have Windows 7 on
this same machine and it doesn't have this problem. And I also ran CHKDSK
on this partition without any switches and it turns up clean. Remember
this is a data partition and I didn't access anything on this partition
before running CHKDSK.

Concerning the other problem - Luckily, I can see that you are using
M$ Outlook Express as your news reader.

So I can post [attach] a registry 'fix' for your "folder opening new
explorer window" problem, to this post.

Just "save" the attachment to your hard-drive (right-click on it and
choose "Save As...", then browse for a location on your HD) then
double-click on it and click on the [yes] button to import.

This will stop Explorer from opening a brand-new window (instance)
when ever you double-click on a folder - it should just 'explorer' it
in the same window.

Hope you get this "in time" to save you the trouble of performing
"drastic" restore to a much earlier date...

Well I did restore to a working backup copy. But that is okay, I need to
test the restore features anyway as some settings don't work during
restore with some backup applications. I do have the two problems on a
spare hard drive that I can test and run that folder.reg and see if it
fixes it. And many thanks for your help Tim. Nobody else has bothered to
tackle this except you. That is saying loads for you right there. <grin>

--
Bill
Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2


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