Explorer (explorer.exe) Keeps Freezing On SP3
Jun 29, 2008
Last night i noticed a problem with windows explorer, about 5 seconds after i opened anything that uses explorer.exe (eg. my computer, documents etc.) explorer would freeze, the only way to kill it was to do it through task manager, once it was killed though it would not reload and i would have to restart my pc.
I am running windows xp sp3 and have noticed a couple of little concerns. I tried to do a system restore and all my restore points had been removed ( i make it a habit to set a restore point when i install new software) and also my Norton auto protect has been disabled, when i select enable, i click apply and it is disabled again, it doesn't stay enabled. I have run windows in safe mode and explorer works fine in there i can get to all my files but when i boot xp normally, explorer crashes.
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Feb 16, 2010
Sometimes it won't start in the first place - when I go to Windows Task Manager it states NOT RESPONDING and I have to end task (which often doesn't work immediately). Other times it can work fine then just freezes and won't do anything. When I have chosen to end task (using Task Manager) I have sometimes had messages saying things aren't responding. These flick up then disappear very quickly. Two that I've managed to read are DDEserver and ccSvcHst.This hasn't starting happening in conjuction with anything else I've done with the PC.
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System is Insignia D400 2.8ghz 512 mb ram, 256 mb ATI Radeon 9250 graphics card, IE7 the current browser.I am able to view everything on my user log in, but when my wife logs in, her IE freezes.Doesn't even bring up a home page.Can click on anything, but just freezes until it's logged off.I ran Spybot and AdAware and AVG, made the fixes,and it still didn't help her side.After saving her favorites and mine,I tried uninstalling IE,then removing the components, rebooting and starting from scratch, I thought...but her side is still frozen.
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Jun 5, 2005
My computer has recently been freezing quite a bit. I have re-installed the op sys win2k prof. and it still does this. I have learned to live with the freezing not a big deal i just re-start often. Anyway today it really started acting up. I get to the login screen type in my password and it loads the desktop but before i can click on anything it gives me an error message saying that explorer has caused an error and will be closed and must be re-started, then it says generating error log. At this point i click ok and there is nothing on the desktop and there is no start bar. The only button combo that works is ctrl alt del. I have tried to boot into safe mode and it does the same thing. Today i had just finished installing new updates from microsoft and it froze right after doing this so i just had to do a hard re-start could this have screwed up the op sys??
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I recently had a problem on my computer where Internet explorer was not working and would'nt open, and no windows based functions that used the explorer interface would work... So i downloaded the IE7 install package on my other computer and burned to disk to install. everything was going along fine, and when prompted to restart to finsih the installation i did so..... that is when "it" hit the fan.
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every time i try to open anything that uses these programs i get a 'windows/internet explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close' crash i think i have a virus in my processes i have 2 strange ones one is n6tgoxae.exe the other is 86851316.exe norton fixes this is for a short while but then the problem soon returns i have also tried spybot search and destroy as well as running AdAware can anyone help me on how to fix my explorer problems and gettin rid of
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Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.2180, faulting module netapi32.dll, version 5.1.2600.2976, fault address 0x0003952c. When a user is editing documents in Word 2003 from a network share, the Windows Explorer then shuts down and refreshes the desktop. The error message above is in the Application Event Log. the Event ID is 1000. Done some searches and tried a few things but still user gets this error. After this error in the Event Log another message is "The shell stopped unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted. The Event ID is 1002 for this one.
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I can only use the internet through Apple's Safari web browser but no other
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