Explorer Crashing

Vinnie · #1 28th Jun 04, 12:24 PM

When I right click on a folder or try to delete it Explorer crashes, any ideals. Running XP Pro.

I don't know what I did but it's working now. What happened was that I made a new folder in My Pictures folder and couldn't get rid of it. It just started working again. The only thing I did to clear it up was to delete another folder that I didn't need, that must have cleared the fault.

Started doing it again, trying to delete a folder in Documents and Settings.

Shiromagius · #2 28th Jun 04, 09:18 PM

Have you tried restarting? You know MS... sometimes a good ol reboot will solve the problem. Also, have you tried deleting the folder from a DOS prompt? Just a few things to check out

Vinnie · #3 28th Jun 04, 10:16 PM

I've restarting and it didn't help, I havn't tried the DOS prompt. It will let me drag the folder to the recycle bin and delete it that way.

Dudelive · #4 29th Jun 04, 03:29 AM

If it goes back to doing it after a full scan etc...then turn off the computer for a short while and then see if upon starting up it works ok.
Then you may want to boot it with winternals cd and see if it can be deleted that way

Thanks
Dudelive

war59312 · #5 29th Jun 04, 04:01 AM

Spyware or virus perhaps?

Vinnie · #6 29th Jun 04, 11:29 AM

No spyware or virus that I've found. It doesn't seem consistant, sometimes it works right and then it will start again. I don't have to try deleting a file for it to crash, I've found that just right clicking a folder or sometimes just left clicking a folder to highlight it and doing nothing more that letting my cursor hover above the file menu or clicking the file menu causes a crash. I'll try to shut it down while at work today and see what happens after a "rest".

HotRod · #7 29th Jun 04, 02:16 PM

My explorer exe always crashing since SP1. Open your RECYCLER folder on all your drives and see what one has 2 or 3 trashbins in it. The way I've been clearing it up is delete the trash bins on all drives and reboot. Mine gets so bad any right click brings up a blank desktop and then everything resets. Haven't figured out why get multiple trash bins though.

DoG · #8 29th Jun 04, 03:11 PM

You get a fresh recycle bin for each reinstall you perform- i had 8 on 1 drive not long ago, they yook up over 30 Gig of space! You also get an extra set of restore points in your System Volume Information folder in the root of each drive, these can take gigabytes of space on any partition that you don't reformat frequently.

What's in the folder you are right clicking on (pictures, movies,program files etc) ? What folder view options have you got set?

I found hat right clicking a folder with a LOT of jpeg's or bitmaps in can crash explorer if you have faulty memory. not saying yours is faulty though!

HotRod · #9 29th Jun 04, 03:28 PM

Any folder I right click...doesn't matter, even right clicking a txt file will crash explorer. View options...show everything. I delete all recycle bins at fresh load, but still keep getting multiple bins on a drive.

DoG · #10 29th Jun 04, 06:07 PM

Now thats just plain strange. Will do some searching for you.

EDIT: As a side thought- what graphics card are you using and what Utils do the drivers add to your context menu? i have an Nvidia card in this box and the ASUS Nvidia drivers install some damn buggy apps into the context menu. When i install their drivers on my system i can't right click a folder without getting an "Nview Failed To Initialise" error.