Re: Windows explorer constantly frozen
- From: Bruce <parcxman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:19:04 -0500
ryan.externaldrive2@xxxxxxxxx wrote in news:1174151482.337857.141890
@y66g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:
I do not know what is wrong. My computer (which has been running Win
XP SP2 fine for ~3 months) is suddenly having problems. I am NOT new
to windows, or computers, and realize there is something wrong with
windows. My problem below:
This problem just appeared randomly a few days ago with no warning,
and no "fade into it". my system is actually perfectly fine, except
explorer (and only explorer) is unfathomably slow. Anything to do
with file browsing, task bar, start menu, is all hung constantly. For
short periods, it will suddenly jump to life and act normally until I
issue a command, or a random (and short) amount of time has passed,
then it will freeze again, trying to execute my command (in the event
I gave it one).
What is strange about this is the rest of the OS is acting completely
normally, and I can view all my files fine through Firefox (luckily).
Please let me know if you have ever heard of this problem and/or know
what to do.
Note: Two points of info:
A. I've noticed when I first login, it seems normal, except:
1. explorer is not started (but it's trying, and accomplishes starting
in about ~30mins.)
2. the memory consumption is ~270 megabytes, instead of the normal
idle of ~ 380 megabytes (I suspect some services that are also having
trouble because of explorer are not yet started, or are very slow to
acquire their required resources).
B: I HAVE turned off the windows imaging thing, so don't suggest that
(I just see that a lot, so don't in advance)
Once again, please help me, and thank you in advance if you have an
idea or solution. I can try to provide more info if necessary.
I had this problem once. It turned out that a networked pc to which I had
once mapped was no longer on the network (I had decomissioned the networked
pc). Since the pc was no longer on the network, my working pc's windows
explorer would spend lots of time trying to find it, which it never could.
And, since the pc was decomissioned, I could not disconnect the network
drive.
To test if this is your problem, disable your network connection so that
you can't hunt for any mapped drives. If the problem goes away, I suspect
this is your problem.
Next, the fix was to find every instance in my registry that pointed to the
decomissioned pc. Here's how I did that:
I donw loaded RegScanner, and looked in HKCR for anything pointing to "\\".
I found plenty that pointed to two machines that were wipped clean a while
ago. I deleted these lines in the registry, and my problem was fixed.
Let us know what you find.
HTH,
Bruce
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