HELP! Weird problem with Desktop on Vista.

[Guest]

Hi there, I just upgraded to Windows Vista Home premium (6.0, Build 6000)
I have a AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ and One GIG RAM

I use the computer for several hours and it is fine but then the desktop
malfunctions and when I try and click on applications, it doesn't work. My
desktop freezes and explorer.exe message says that is has crashed. Very
annoying problem which happens everyday and every so often. Superantisypware
and registry mechanics didn't help.

I have updated my PC even the reliability patches (KB941649) and have to
kill explorer.exe everytime and restart it. Tried to search the problem up
but no help. Please help me, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Tie Various]

I have posted this numerous times...

seems to me that some explorer extension is causing the problem

go here http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html (see download link
towards bottom of that page) and use that appto disable temporarily all non
microsoft shell extensions that load up
with windows explorer.

Download that app, and right click on the EXE and select "run as
administrator"

Then start disabling things you dont need. You do that by right clicking on
the pink ones and selecting disable.

Then with the trial and error method start enabling them one by one again
try to pinpoint which one is causing the problem and keep it disabled..

you might also want to scan for spyware using the built windows defender and
"spybot search & destroy " and "adaware"
that you can download from www.download.com if you search for those 2 names.

ALSO>>

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/AutoRuns.mspx

this will show everything that loads with windows..

again troubleshooting like this does need experience but try to see if
anything strange is loading with windows somewhere

tell me if this helps

 

[Guest]

What would I then do when I have the Autorun application that sees what
occurs during startup...so far it seems likes it has worked. Thanks

 

[rtk]

Be very careful with third party registry cleaners, many aren't worth a
thing and cause far more problems than they solve.

rtk