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04-20-2007, 03:19 AM
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win explorer keeps crashing.
i'm holding out on building myself a good PC for the time and i'm using a Dell Latitude P4 laptop for everything appart from Photoshop and any other hard going programms. about a month ago my laptop did something wierd and crashed whilst shutting down. Ever since then windows explorer crashes everytime that the PC wakes up from screensaver mode (it wakes itself up after 10 mins of being in screensaver mode for no reason) and recently explorer just crashes whilst i'm looking through files, now (for the past 2 days) my pc runs super slow and crashes even more frequently. i've run antivirus scans and spyware/adware scans and de-fragged my drive but still it crashes. anyone know what is going on and how i can fix it? thanks.
 *Edit* it's running on XP SP2. i've tried running ShelExView to delete some useless stuff but that does not help either. Last edited by F3T0; 04-20-2007 at 04:55 AM. |
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04-20-2007, 11:20 AM
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I had a similar explorer problem that traced back to an HP 1200.
I have to unplug that thing to start windows or I do not have an explorer :/ |
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04-20-2007, 10:16 PM
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Anti-malware programs?
Registry cleaner? Defragging regularly? More info please... -Kev
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04-21-2007, 03:18 AM
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i'm using "Free System Tweaker" to clean my pc from time to time, i defrag roughly once a month and i'm using spyware doctor to get rid of malware. i also run a full virus scan once a month-ish with (don't kill me for it, it came with the laptop) Norton antivirus. so as far as i'm aware i should be fine....right?
another thing to note is that whenever i shut the pc down a warning pops up just before the PC switches off. it says that ????? memory could not be written ????? and it only gives me the one "OK" option. the box that the warning pops up in is an old style type one (like, win 95 or something). i'll give you the exact message it gives me the next time i shutdown. |
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04-21-2007, 07:17 AM
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did you try a system restore (if enabled) to a time before this happed
Last edited by toomyg; 04-21-2007 at 07:25 AM. |
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