Momentary Disappearing desktop Icons

[Ray**]

My computer has developed a habit for the desktop icons
to suddenly disappear for a few seconds then seem to
reload and appear again. It is as if the computer was
trying to crash but could not. Does anyone know what
causes this. As I would like to fix it if possible.
Thanks Ray

 

[David Candy]

That what happens when it does crash. Look in the logs in Event Viewer and try to get some detail on it. There will be one entry saying the shell has stopped and started - this confirms that this is what is happening. But there should be another saying explorer.exe had a problem of some type.

It will sometimes reload the desktop icons, but this is normally quick (due to a program writing a file or something).

If it is a crash the start menu and taskbar will also disappear. Explorer.exe does the whole taskbar, desktop, and any folder windows.

 

[Ray**]

-----Original Message-----
That what happens when it does crash. Look in the logs

in Event Viewer and try to get some detail on it. There
will be one entry saying the shell has stopped and
started - this confirms that this is what is happening.
But there should be another saying explorer.exe had a
problem of some type.

It will sometimes reload the desktop icons, but this is

normally quick (due to a program writing a file or
something).

If it is a crash the start menu and taskbar will also

disappear. Explorer.exe does the whole taskbar, desktop,
and any folder windows.message news:[email protected]...

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Thanks for Your Reply The Task Bar and start menu do

dissapear. I looked in the Event Viewer. and there is a
reference to an error in the source DCOM marked in red
at around the times this happened. Do you know what this
is and could it be fixed without putting the recovery
disk in. There is also a reference to something called An
EPQD program error message in yellow and source user32.
This program was not responding on shutdown. Gray box
with progress bar appeared Do you know how to fix this as
well. I closed this Program down in the Start Menu But
maybe it is something the computer needs Hope you can
help. Happy Christmas and new year Ray

 

[David Candy]

Need full text of messages.

 

[Ray **]

-----Original Message-----
Need full text of messages.

message news:[email protected]...

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Sorry i overlooked the real Message as follows DCOM got

error . The service cannot be started either because it
is disabled or has no enabled devices associated with it
attempting to start the service stisvc with arguments in
order to run the server AIF4E726 8CF1 11D1 BF92
0060081ED811. The other message regarding EPQD
and user32 Simply says the attempt to reboot computer
failed .Is the EpQD program a system program is what i
would really like to know about it at the monent Hope you
can help Ray

 

[David Candy]

The message will look something like this in Application log

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 6/12/2003
Time: 11:14:40 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SERENITY
Description:
Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2600.0, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.0, fault address 0x000051c0.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 65 78 70 ure exp
0018: 6c 6f 72 65 72 2e 65 78 lorer.ex
0020: 65 20 36 2e 30 2e 32 36 e 6.0.26
0028: 30 30 2e 30 20 69 6e 20 00.0 in
0030: 6e 74 64 6c 6c 2e 64 6c ntdll.dl
0038: 6c 20 35 2e 31 2e 32 36 l 5.1.26
0040: 30 30 2e 30 20 61 74 20 00.0 at
0048: 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 30 offset 0
0050: 30 30 30 35 31 63 30 0d 00051c0.
0058: 0a .

The only reference to eqpd is
http://groups.google.com.au/groups?...EPQD+&sa=N&tab=wg&meta=lr%3Dlang_en%7Clang_es

But don't believe everything you read. Find the file, r/c it and see what properties has to say.

 

[Ray **]

-----Original Message-----
The message will look something like this in Application log

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 6/12/2003
Time: 11:14:40 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SERENITY
Description:
Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2600.0,

faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.0, fault
address 0x000051c0.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 65 78 70 ure exp
0018: 6c 6f 72 65 72 2e 65 78 lorer.ex
0020: 65 20 36 2e 30 2e 32 36 e 6.0.26
0028: 30 30 2e 30 20 69 6e 20 00.0 in
0030: 6e 74 64 6c 6c 2e 64 6c ntdll.dl
0038: 6c 20 35 2e 31 2e 32 36 l 5.1.26
0040: 30 30 2e 30 20 61 74 20 00.0 at
0048: 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 30 offset 0
0050: 30 30 30 35 31 63 30 0d 00051c0.
0058: 0a .

The only reference to eqpd is
http://groups.google.com.au/groups? hl=en&lr=lang_en|lang_es&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-
8&safe=off&threadm=0b9d01c3c43f%2444197a50%24a001280a%
40phx.gbl&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D100%26hl%3Den%26ie%
3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26q%3DEPQD%2B%26sa%3DN%
26tab%3Dwg%26meta%3Dlr%253Dlang_en%257Clang_es

But don't believe everything you read. Find the file,

r/c it and see what properties has to say.message news:[email protected]...

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Thanks for your reply. I studied all this noted it. But

resorted to putting a small repair program I have into
the machine. Dont think you would approve of third party
software It does seem to have stopped the difficulty.
Thanks very much Ray