I just recently formated and installed windows XP, 2 times in a row just for G.P. when windows starts up, explorer.exe doesn't start correctly: my whole start bar and taskbar locks up. if i hover my mouse pointer down on the taskbar the cursor turns into the hourglass. i cant access any other icon on the desktop. pretty much cant use windows. i have to end explorer.exe via the task manager. then run explorer in the new task. sort of a reboot of explorer.exe. anybody have any suggestions on how to fix this. other then to reinstall windows....again.
I don't use automatic updates. so anything that was installed with the windows xp disc (1 year old notebook) is what im running now. thanks
2007-02-11 10:17:00 · 2 answers · asked by Nick T 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
You are mostly likely missing tons of security patches/updates. Regaurdless of the fact that you bought the disk 1 year ago it probably didn't evene have all the updates good at thet time (CDs rarely do)
Go to update.microsoft.com and run a custom update. Install all high-priority updates.
2007-02-11 10:28:45 · answer #1 · answered by blndchik 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could try to remove as much process loading when you start windows... to do so :
- Click "Start"
- Click "Run..."
- Enter "msconfig" and click "OK"
- Go to the "startup" tab and remove all you believe isn't necessary at startup and click "OK"
- Reboot computer
- You will have a popup saying you made changes... Click on the "do not show this message again" and "OK"
Might work, might not also... good luck
2007-02-11 12:18:39 · answer #2 · answered by Jocelyn B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋