My Network Places bombs

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Ok, i'm a first time poster ... i'll do my best to follow protocol!

I recently purchased a new computer with SP2 preinstalled. I downloaded all
the newest patches, installed my office 2003 products, and my norton products
(internet security, system works, password manager, etc.) in no particular
order. Following one of the various reboots i began to notice that i was
having a problem configuring a file share. Afterwards i double clicked on My
Network places and it bombed with an explorer.exe application error. Viewing
the Dr. Watson data told me there was a problem with msvcrt.dll. Once i
replaced it with the OEM files it now says the problem is with shell32.
Because this file is in use i cannot replace it. Although, i'm not exactly
sure that is the problem, considering the file versions are the same between
the system32 folder and the OEM media. Does anyone have any ideas what could
cause this? Btw, the same problem happens when i click on network places
from within Explorer. However, if i manually type a computer name into the
address bar, i.e. \\computername\share then explorer works fine.
 
try this

Explorer/Tools/Folder Options/View

Untick Automatically search for network folders and printers
Tick Do not cache thumbnails

hth

Philip Ashley
 
This appears to be working. Once i did this, i was able to open network
places from both explorer and the desktop. However, a minute or 2 later the
same issue came back. I went back into the tools|folder options|view and
applied this setting to all folders. This casued it to work properly
again...and, for 10 minutes or so later it is still working.

I guess the next question is, what is the problem. This is a fine
fix/work-around, but doesn't give me an indication of the actual problem.

Thanks!

Eric
 
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