Windows Explorer in XP Pro - problem?

[jash]

Hi
I'm running XP Pro SP2 on an aging P4 1.5.

I have had a problem for a few days with Explorer not closing down properly and not behaving as expected. It would open, but without displaying the folders under My Documents.
Where the + appeared next to a folder, it would not reveal the sub folders in the left-hand pane, though they would appear on the right and be accessible; it was also very slow reacting when the + was clicked.
When I clicked on a folder in the right hand pane, that folder only would appear correctly beneath the parent folder in the left hand pane.
When I closed the program, the window would close but the taskbar button would remain; if I forced it to close by right-clicking, the screen would clear and icons would gradually return to the taskbar.

Fearing I would have to reinstall (perhaps), I ran Norton WinDisk which found some issues, asked me to schedule a full check at reboot to fix the problems (one was soemthing to do with indexing); now Explorer appears to be back to its old self.

Have I solved my problem?

My concern is that Explorer/IE are so wrapped up in everyhting else in XP that I want them to be running properly.

Any thoughts appreciated.

James

[bailey]

you may have some software conflick ar a bad install, as I have never run into any problems at all with what your discribing,
also run a virus program like avg and spubot for any unwanted problem programs.

[jash]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I run Norton Antivirus, Windows Defender & have recently run adaware & spybot.

I wondered whether it might be a virus.

But why then has it stopped?

[Panama Red]

Sounds more like a registry issue that was fixed by Norton as opposed to a virus.

[flawedreality5]

I remember seeing this post a couple days ago. I didn't know if this news I saw today had something to do with your problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918165