Re: After Latest Patches, Right-Click Desktop Freezes the Desktop
- From: "Richard in AZ" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:54:44 -0700
You may not want to restore, but that still sounds like your best bet.
Then change you update to let you choose the downloads to install and download the updates one at a
time.
Make a restore point between each one. Then if one of them is a problem to your machine, you will
be able to identify it and remove just that one.
Make sure you machine is clean of any malware first.
<jaykchan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1144864924.588089.118130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yesterday afternoon, Windows-Update automatically downloaded 6 patches.
Right after rebooting the PC, I right-clicked on the desktop trying to
get into Display Properties to change the resolution of the screen.
But instead of seeing the pop-up menu, I saw the hour-glass, and the
desktop didn't respond when I clicked on it. I still could access the
tasks-bar and runs some programs. But when I close those programs, I
found that the desktop image was not updated -- like the desktop window
could not respond to the request to redraw itself. I could clean up
the garage on the screen by opening and closing Tasks Manager; this
redrew the wallpaper of the desktop; but this didn't re-paint the
desktop icons.
Seem like "explorer.exe" freezes whenever I right-click the desktop.
The only way that I can recover from this problem is to reboot the PC.
The PC has Windows-XP-Home-Edition with latest service pack.
The last time I was able to right-click the desktop was on Monday
morning (2 days ago). Therefore, I am sure that the system starts
having this problem from the recent patches.
What's should I do to recover from this problem? I don't really want
to restore the system to before-the-patches because I am afraid that I
would not get the security protection of the patches, and I would be
forced to re-apply the patch and back to square-one.
Is there something simple that I can do to fix this?
I can terminate "explorer.exe" through Tasks Manager. But I don't know
how to re-launch "explorer.exe" to get back the desktop.
Any idea? Thanks in advance for any help.
Jay Chan
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