Hour glass over start/taskbar...

[Slippery_one]

Computer Start/taskbar shows the hour glass whenever the mouse hovers
over the task bar. The task bar (start button) will not respond.

The hour glass goes away when on the desktop, and icons work fine and
programs run fine on the desktop, but no response from the taskbar.
System idle process says %99 CPU usage. Explorer pops up as an end
task on shutdown from Taskmanager and safe mode. On restart, the
restore active desktop white screen appears.

Funny thing is after 15-45 minutes it seems to clear up. Nothing is
reporting CPU usage. I was able to get him to sfc /scannow. It asked
for the CD but no help
on reboot.

P4 2.4 Intel MB 512R ATI Vid
Win XP home SP2
ZA Security suite
Ad-aware run frequently

I would appreciate any help

Thanks

 

[Fido]

Sounds like you have a rouge program suckin up processes. Load your task
manager, click the processes tab, sort the Mem usage column. If theres
something your not aware of thats running high numbers, google the image
name.

 

[Slippery_one]

Sounds like you have a rouge program suckin up processes. Load your
task manager, click the processes tab, sort the Mem usage column. If
theres something your not aware of thats running high numbers,
google the image name.

Someone else suggested rebuilding TCP/IP and that didn't work. Will
have a look tonight at the processes

 

[Guest]

This probably won't help you, but the same thing happens to me if I log on
right after the log on screen appears. If I wait a couple of minutes before
I log on, I don't have that problem. This started happening after installing
SP2.

 

[Slippery_one]

This probably won't help you, but the same thing happens to me if I
log on
right after the log on screen appears. If I wait a couple of
minutes before
I log on, I don't have that problem. This started happening after
installing
SP2.

:

I fixed this system rather simply last night. I ended "explorer.exe"
process in taskman, then started new process "explorer.exe" sans
quotes and the problem cleared up. Don't ask me why, but it worked. I
would guess it fixed some association or other? Try it maybe.

 

[Guest]

I see how you can stop explorer.exe (end task), but how do you start it again?

 

[Slippery_one]

New task at the bottom of "applications" tab