'My Computer' gets corrupted

[Krazy Katt]

Hi all,

This has happened a couple of times and it's very annoying. Seems every
once in a while when I click on the 'My Computer' folder to see the
contents of my PC's drives the My Computer folder just locks up
and I end up killing it (by clicking on the cancel button). When I do
this Windows throws up a dialog box 'You chose to end the nonresponsive
program, Windows Explorer, etc. etc.' and of course, because explorer
has died I lose my taskbar and I have to restart the explorer task.
However after this, I cannot get 'My Computer' to startup without
restarting the machine.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Krazy
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[Kelly]

Depends.....start here in the meantime:

Run Ad-Aware SE, Spybot, CWShredder and HijackThis:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html

Note: Update the first two programs, once installed, before running.

Free Online Virus Scan
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

Good luck and keep us posted!


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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[S.Sengupta]

Run all those mentioned tools [as mentioned by Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)] in
safe mode.

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]