Windows Explorer stops responding, when I right-click, use the menus, or use keyboard shortcuts. The only thing I can do is open windows explorer, left-click to show contents of a drive, and close windows explorer. All else causes it to stop responding. Here’s all that I’ve tried:
1. Degrag/clean up temp files, scandisk
2. Updated/ran antivirus, antispyware, antiadware (ZoneAlarm AV, Spybot S&D, Ad-aware, MS Antispyware).
3. Ran msconfig, stopped all processes from starting and reenabled individually to isolate. Whether all are off, or only any one, or any combination, i still get no fix.
4. Used Shellexview to manage the context menu options via the registry. Whether all are off, or only any one, or any combination, i still get no fix.
5. Deleted all items from Network Neighborhood.
6. Deleted all references to mapped drives
7. Removed all mapped printers
8. Disabled NICs to prevent any attempts at connecting to network resources
9. Disabled the fade and slide effects for menus
10. Ran Windows update (i’m fully updated)
11. Updated all drivers (only had to update a few, but still no fix)
12. I’ve run a repair via XP Pro CD and reapplied all updates, patches, hotfixes, etc.
13. Using Restore points doesn’t resolve the issue, but this issue has occured for quite some time. I don’t know which point is before the problem exists.
14. Hard Drive tests don’t seem to find anything wrong with the hardware.
I can kill windows explorer from Task Manager, which then automatically restarts (as it should), but I still have the problem of it locking up when i try to windows explorer. I’m getting very good at using CMD, but it’s starting to get annoying 🙂
I get the same results, 100%, whether in Normal Boot with full startup options, Normal Boot with modified startup options (via msconfig) or Safe Mode.
I’m running WinXP Pro. Got plenty HD and RAM space with 1.6GHz CPU. I’m not running low on any system resources.
Nothing I do seems to make this work.