I am having a problem, all of a sudden I can't right click any icons,
on the desktop or in a explorer window. When I do, I get the hour
glass of a cursor and I hear the hard drive running but otherwise the
PC is frozen. When I click Ctrl-Alt-Del the are no programs running
under the Applications Tab and when I go to shut down from there it
brings up the end task now window and "explorer" is the one that is
hanging the computer. I am running Windows XP Pro and I have ran a
virus scan with Norton 2003 with no viruses found. I can right click a
blank area of the desktop or the task bar though.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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I had a similar problem in Win98 once. In the end, it
turned out that explorer was corrupt. I spend a lot of
time working in the registry, because it seemed weird
that it would start to fail in such a specific fashion
(all the other functions of explorer worked fine,) but
in the end, replacing explorer.exe did the trick.
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Nick
A+, Network+, MCP

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Nick <nick2030@excite.com> wrote in message news:<gI7Ua.4566$Jd4.1777@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com>...
> I had a similar problem in Win98 once. In the end, it
> turned out that explorer was corrupt. I spend a lot of
> time working in the registry, because it seemed weird
> that it would start to fail in such a specific fashion
> (all the other functions of explorer worked fine,) but
> in the end, replacing explorer.exe did the trick.


Ok I will give that a try. Is there any easy way to replace
explorer.exe? Do I have to reinstall XP or can I just search for it on
the XP install disk and install from there? Would that work?

Thanks
Bill

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Bill Jones wrote:
> I am having a problem, all of a sudden I can't right click any icons,
> on the desktop or in a explorer window. When I do, I get the hour
> glass of a cursor and I hear the hard drive running but otherwise the
> PC is frozen. When I click Ctrl-Alt-Del the are no programs running
> under the Applications Tab and when I go to shut down from there it
> brings up the end task now window and "explorer" is the one that is
> hanging the computer. I am running Windows XP Pro and I have ran a
> virus scan with Norton 2003 with no viruses found. I can right click a
> blank area of the desktop or the task bar though.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks

run service pack 1 (even if you already have service pack 1 installed)

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I am not quite sure in XP. In Win98, I just extracted
it and copied it over the bad one.
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Nick
A+, Network+, MCP

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On 25 Jul 2003 09:33:36 -0700, abconline@hotmail.com (Bill Jones)
warbled tunelessly:

>Nick <nick2030@excite.com> wrote in message news:<gI7Ua.4566$Jd4.1777@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com>...
>> I had a similar problem in Win98 once. In the end, it
>> turned out that explorer was corrupt. I spend a lot of
>> time working in the registry, because it seemed weird
>> that it would start to fail in such a specific fashion
>> (all the other functions of explorer worked fine,) but
>> in the end, replacing explorer.exe did the trick.
>
>
>Ok I will give that a try. Is there any easy way to replace
>explorer.exe? Do I have to reinstall XP or can I just search for it on
>the XP install disk and install from there? Would that work?
>
>Thanks
>Bill


Hi Bill, I had a similar problem once as well. It had to do with a
program that had added a link to itself to my right click menu. (Can't
remember what it was called but it would show a thumbnail of an image
file or movie file when ever I right clicked a media file)

Anyhow, as soon as I uninstalled the proggie everything was back to
normal.

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I also have this problem... but it's only in one user's login. WindowsXP Home. I haven't installed anything lately except the Symantec FixBlast.exe... (and it wasn't in this particular login account.)

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On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:20:10 -0500, sgeo
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>
>I also have this problem... but it's only in one user's login. WindowsXP
>Home. I haven't installed anything lately except the Symantec
>FixBlast.exe... (and it wasn't in this particular login account.)
>
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I once installed a program that would show a tiny preview if you
right click on file. Whenever I tried it would reboot my system
though! Can't remember the program but maybe you have some software
that has installed itself into your right-click menu ?

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