Cyber Shaman
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- Aug 26, 2011
Hi everyone,
I've been using Windows 7 Professional on a precarious condition lately. I can't pinpoint why or what's causing it, but I know Explorer.exe is malfunctioning: I don't get a BSOD (fortunately, perhaps) but the system hangs.
As whenever that happens, Windows 7 itself suggests "checking for a solution" (which it never does, as best as I can see) and "restarting the program", I've come to understand that a mere restart of the Explorer.exe solves most issues, which has become my default approach to temporarily solving issues, thanks to Process Hacker 2 (BLESSED BE ITS CREATORS!).
However, this is not the best solution because I'm not being able to address why Explorer hangs, in the first place. More often than not, it hangs when saving files: whether I'm saving a RTF document, a Video downloaded from video-sharing sites, or even saving a picture from some website, Explorer has a 50-50 chance of going bonkers.
Therefore, I would conclude that it might be some of its Shell Extensions or similar subroutines. I deactivated the Windows Indexing service while trying to solve this, but it still persists; however, I've not reactivated it.
For the majority of daily operations, this is a hassle that I can get by somewhat but it has been consistently interfering with DVD-Burning operations which is part of my work that I've had to postpone -- and I'll be hitting deadlines in the middle of this year which demands me to solve this.
I would appreciate very much if people could pool in ideas on how to fix this: from my research, it seems that many users on the Web have been suffering from the same situation, with Explorer stopping to respond during save operations.
I've been using Windows 7 Professional on a precarious condition lately. I can't pinpoint why or what's causing it, but I know Explorer.exe is malfunctioning: I don't get a BSOD (fortunately, perhaps) but the system hangs.
As whenever that happens, Windows 7 itself suggests "checking for a solution" (which it never does, as best as I can see) and "restarting the program", I've come to understand that a mere restart of the Explorer.exe solves most issues, which has become my default approach to temporarily solving issues, thanks to Process Hacker 2 (BLESSED BE ITS CREATORS!).
However, this is not the best solution because I'm not being able to address why Explorer hangs, in the first place. More often than not, it hangs when saving files: whether I'm saving a RTF document, a Video downloaded from video-sharing sites, or even saving a picture from some website, Explorer has a 50-50 chance of going bonkers.
Therefore, I would conclude that it might be some of its Shell Extensions or similar subroutines. I deactivated the Windows Indexing service while trying to solve this, but it still persists; however, I've not reactivated it.
For the majority of daily operations, this is a hassle that I can get by somewhat but it has been consistently interfering with DVD-Burning operations which is part of my work that I've had to postpone -- and I'll be hitting deadlines in the middle of this year which demands me to solve this.
I would appreciate very much if people could pool in ideas on how to fix this: from my research, it seems that many users on the Web have been suffering from the same situation, with Explorer stopping to respond during save operations.
