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Matthew W Inner circle New York 2456 Posts |
Ok, I have fairly new Toshiba laptop, I got it in july.
Every time I open a folder or anything that uses windows explorer, especially the taskbar on the bottom, it crashes. I get the spinning vista wheel and it pops up a message that Windows Explorer has stopped working. How do I fix it?
-Matt
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Rupert Bair Inner circle ? 2179 Posts |
Have you downloaded any programs recently?? It could just be a bad program...I know there is a few programs that can screw vista up. Try uninstalling anything that's been installed recently one by one and seeing if it makes a difference. If not.
Download Freeware: malwarebyes anti-malware http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php and BO Clean: http://www.comodo.com/boclean/CBO_download.html And run a full system scan on these two and also your main virus scanner. If your system is clean then try http://www.ccleaner.com/ To see if its a registry problem. If problem still exists, either reinstall vista or do a system restore to before the problem arose. Hope this helps, :R:B: |
Matthew W Inner circle New York 2456 Posts |
The only software I installed was MS Access 2007 and VB Express.
This has always been happening, and I put up with it when it was only once in a while but now it is happening every 5 minutes.
-Matt
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MAKMagic Special user I got banned for one of my 555 Posts |
Mojave Blows - their new commercials don't change that.
Move back to XP.
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Matthew W Inner circle New York 2456 Posts |
I had planned on that. I just have to wait it out until the semester is over, I need the laptop for my classes.
The school I am going to actually offers a bunch of free software through msdn and xp pro is one of them!
-Matt
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3526 Posts |
Try installing the new service pack II that's now available.
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2008-12-05 11:09, Matthew W wrote: If you have had this problem basically from the very start, it is quite possible that your problem is hardware based. Like a bad hard disk, for example. In the last 2-3 years, I've had about 4 major problems with my computer. Every time, the local IT people and the remote service call people have suggested at the start that it was a software problem. I guess that is how they are trained, to assume a software problem at the start by default. It always seems to take a week or two for them to diagnose / identify the real problem, and every time the root of the problem has been defective hardware. I've had my DVD reader/writer crap out, the hard disk go bad, the circuitry connecting the base of the computer to the screen become faulty. Of course I don't know what your computer's problem is, but don't discount that it might be related to defective hardware. I experienced a problem something like yours in that whenever I tried running a certain program, the computer would reboot ... in the end the root of my problem was a bad hard disk. Perhaps you should try running some disk checking program?
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Rupert Bair Inner circle ? 2179 Posts |
If you want to scandisk right click your drive, select properties, tools and error checking.
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Matthew W Inner circle New York 2456 Posts |
I think it is software related because vista needs at least 2 gigs of ram to run, and the laptop only has 2 gigs.
-Matt
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rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2475 Posts |
I have more than 2 gigs, and just lately, Internet Explorer has started crashing much more often.
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Matthew W Inner circle New York 2456 Posts |
Running vista?
-Matt
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rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2475 Posts |
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On 2008-12-05 17:15, Matthew W wrote: [*sigh*] Yeah, running Vista [*shakes head*] I should say that it was doing this progressively worse in IE7 (what everybody has) - I'm running the beta of IE8 (some very nice new features) and it still does it (plus a few beta-related bugs) |
Joey Stalin Inner circle Canada 1072 Posts |
No people are just too stupid to figure out how to use an easy OP like Vista. People complained about this kind of stuff when everyone changed to XP years back as I recall. Computers don't just screw up. There is only one reason they do; user error.
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Daegs Inner circle USA 4291 Posts |
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No people are just too stupid to figure out how to use an easy OP like Vista. People complained about this kind of stuff when everyone changed to XP years back as I recall. Computers don't just screw up. There is only one reason they do; user error. Only one reason Joey? What about designer error? They designed a poor OS. People are not "too stupid" for Vista, put the same people on a Mac and there won't be nearly as much issues. -Daegs |
Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
Try asking the question on a computer geek board as opposed to a magic geek board LOL.
Danny Doyle
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Rupert Bair Inner circle ? 2179 Posts |
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On 2008-12-06 01:49, Joey Stalin wrote: Its common knowledge vista is unpredictable and not as reliable as XP. |
Joey Stalin Inner circle Canada 1072 Posts |
Nobody I personally know has had any trouble with Vista. Not my older brother, little brother, cousin, older brother's girlfriend, my best friends, nobody. Maybe because they are all decently competent when it comes to using computers. The only people I see that have trouble with Vista are old people and the idiots.
It's not common knowledge, maybe if you have the brain of a sheep. Again the only problem is User Error. People trying to run old hardware and or old software on vista because they're too cheap to buy current versions. Funny I was just thinking about Mac kind of like how Daeges said, but in relation to the movie Wall-E, coupled with the fact Mac had whatever role with that movie. Kind of had similarities, at least to me. Sure they can end up using OSX or what-have-you easily after a while. That is really only because they design them assuming the average users are incompetent and to be "Idiot proof." The connection I saw with Wall-E is that everything was done for all the people on the ship, they became lazy and had no real technical idea of how to do things anymore. They just grew to believe everything "Just works."
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