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Windows Explorer stops working, restarts when using Vista search (start > search)
So far, a bumpy ride. Dell Precision M90 laptop, not a toy, not cheap. Video is flaky (NVidia Quadra FX 2500) and have followed a couple threads (dell forums) for a few months now. Really can't believe they shipped this as a working product...
Enough ranting... :)
Current problem is Explorer (not IE7) is crashing periodically, can pretty much make it happen by using Start (ball/button) and typing in something I am looking for (pretty much launch every app and document this way...) At least 50% of the time it says Windows Explorer has stopped working and needs to restart. Luckily it keeps chugging along and the start bar goes blank for just a second and then comes back up.
I was indexing everything and rolled it back to just Users and Program Files (and deleted the index cache/db/whatever) and it didnt help any.
Nothing out of the ordinary and I can't really pinpoint when it started to be honest. Most obscure thing I run is PDANet which is a dial-up application for Palm Treo's... but it was doing it before that.
Office 07, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Nero 7, Active directory tools, etc.
Anyone have any ideas before I head down the long format/reload road?
Thanks
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mombodog
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Message Edited by scotteredu on 09-17-2007 11:18 PM
mombodog
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September 18th, 2007 03:00
you might want to do this:
To create relevant SFC-only information gleaned from the cbs.log, and put it
in a small file called sfcdetails.txt, right-click Command Prompt (using the
shortcut in Start Menu\Programs\Accessories) and choose Run as
Administrator. By default, the prompt starts in C:\Users\(Your Name).
Type:
cd desktop
Press Enter on your keyboard. Then Copy and Paste this at the prompt:
findstr /c:"[SR]" %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log >sfcdetails.txt
Press Enter. Sfcdetails.txt should then appear on your Desktop.
Message Edited by mombodog on 09-17-2007 11:05 PM
mombodog
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Message Edited by mombodog on 09-17-2007 11:34 PM
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September 18th, 2007 16:00
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