Re: After Latest Patches, Right-Click Desktop Freezes the Desktop

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Unfortunately, restoring the system even back to one month ago cannot
fix the problem (and I am sure that I didn't have this problem just a
couple days ago). Seem like the latest patch has embedded in the
system so deep that even the restore-system mechanism cannot remove it.

Fortunately, I find a way to get around with this problem by simply
terminating Verclsid.exe from Tasks-Manager. I find this tip from the
thread called "Security Update MS06-015 breaks Windows Explorer
functionality" in this newsgroup posted here very recently. Seem like
Verclsid.exe only shows up in Tasks-Manager after I have right-clicked
the desktop, and killing it helps me to get around with this problem.
The downside is that I need to find a different way to do everything
that I want to do in the right-click context menu. So far, I can
change the Display Properties through Control Panel instead of through
right-clicking desktop; this is good. I will find out the alternate
way of doing other things in the right-click context menu later.

Hope a good patch that fixes this bad patch will show up soon.

Jay Chan


jaykchan@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks for the tip. Seem like KB908531 also has other problems from
reading other latest posts in this newsgroup. I will restore the
system to before the patches, and then apply all the patches other than
that one.

Jay Chan


J Ski wrote:
The problem is with update KB908531
I am having some problems as well.
I'll post my findings when I know more.
"Richard in AZ" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OtV6UNnXGHA.3740@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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