dotTech - Topic: Windows Explorer Stops Working

rodken on Windows Explorer Stops Working

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:04:01 -0800

Hey maxwbrad, not sure if you have gotten it fixed and not positive what could be going on, but if you haven't reinstalled your OS try to give this a shot.

Click on the "Start Menu" and go to "Network"

Click on "Organize" at the upper right corner of the window. A drop down window will pop up. Click on "folder" and "search options".

On the folder option window you will see three tabs at the upper right-hand corner. Click on "view" and SELECT "always show Icons, never thumbnail". Next, DESELECT "display files Icon on thumbnails" as illustrated below.

Click OK and see if that does the job.

Let me know if it helped or if you managed to correct it. Good Luck!

Injeun on Windows Explorer Stops Working

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:36:34 -0800

I'm running XP. When that has happened to me in the past, it usually wasn't long before I had to reinstall or do a repair of the operating system from the install disk. I've learned as well to keep backups of My Documents on another drive or partition. That way if I have to completely reinstall the OS, I can then copy and paste everything from the saved My Document folder on the other drive or partition back into the new My Document folder on the newly installed OS. Hopefully you will find a fix short of such drastic measures.

maxwbrad on Windows Explorer Stops Working

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:10:46 -0800

no...just at random

rodken on Windows Explorer Stops Working

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:04:07 -0800

Just wondering does it stop working when you open a certain folder or file?

Grantwhy on Windows Explorer Stops Working

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:31:36 -0800

It probably won't make a difference, but I'd do a disk defragmentantion, check the hard drive for errors and then run a registry cleaner to see if that helps.

as I'm still on XP, I'm not quite sure which programs to recommend to do that – hopefully someone will come along soon and correct any bad advice i've given ;-p

(ps: the disk defrag & disk error checking in W7 should be fine, and I do use the registry cleaner that's in CCleaner)

hmmmm …..

http://www.sevenforums.com/tut.....n-use.html

http://windows.microsoft.com/e.....for-errors

and you can get CCleaner from http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

good luck :-)

maxwbrad on Windows Explorer Stops Working

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:33:12 -0800

Am running W7 64...my windows explorer will stop working and I doo the check for solutions and restart. It restarts ad then works for awhile and then the same thing happens...any tips on correcting this?

Thanks