Wierd Problem - Plz Help!

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For some reason I can no longer open mulitple files in explorer - be it word,
excel, Acad - any program.

Usually I select a buch of files by holding down control or shift, right
click and choose "open"

Now when I try, the mouse flickers as if they are all opening in the
background but alas, nothing happens, not one file opens.

Does anyone have any ideas???

Thanks
 
Daimo said:
For some reason I can no longer open mulitple files in explorer - be
it word, excel, Acad - any program.

Usually I select a buch of files by holding down control or shift,
right click and choose "open"

Now when I try, the mouse flickers as if they are all opening in the
background but alas, nothing happens, not one file opens.

Does anyone have any ideas???

Thanks
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Ignore Mac - he's a troll.

Did the problem occur after the most recent Windows Updates? See:

Problems in Windows Explorer or the Windows shell after you install
security update MS06-015
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918165

An automated fix for the HP Share-to-Web problem from the awesome MVP
Kelly Theriot:
See line 383 (right hand side)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

I believe HP and Nvidia have updated drivers to address the problems
with their software. Check on their sites.

Windows Update support
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?&gprid=6527&
Unlimited support requests are included at no charge
(866) 834-8317

If this doesn't fix things, post back.

Malke
 
Thanks for the info Malke.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the problem as I don't have any HP
software installed and Verclsid.exe wasn't in my processes list.

I have a feeling this problem initially started trying to open multiple
Adobe pdf files from the explorer using Adobe 7. I believe at the time
multiple office files could still open.

Strange indeed. Any other ideas?

Damian
 
Daimo said:
Thanks for the info Malke.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the problem as I don't have any
HP software installed and Verclsid.exe wasn't in my processes list.

I have a feeling this problem initially started trying to open
multiple
Adobe pdf files from the explorer using Adobe 7. I believe at the
time multiple office files could still open.

Strange indeed. Any other ideas?
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Did you do the fix? If not, I would do so. It can't hurt and you may be
surprised. We are seeing all sorts of weird shell behavior because of
this update - and on computers without HP software. Some machines with
Nvidia hardware have experienced problems, and other software/hardware
combinations.

Malke
 
Hi Malke,

Did the fix (used kellys korner than checked it against Microsofts
instructions to change the registry manually).

Unfotunately still no change - for some reason it took my computer a few
attempts to reboot. Kept going to the black screen with the option to reboot
in safe mode etc and it was running really slow (the timer count down before
starting windows normally was taking for ever to count down).

I have a toshiba Laptop so i checked all the drivers were up to date which
they were.

So I'm still at a loss.

Thanks,

Damian
 
Malke,

Just an update.

I removed the fix (as I was worried about re-booting problems).
I then went thru and removed some recently installed programs and found a
program called linespeedmeter to be the culprit.

http://www.tcpiq.com/tcpIQ/LineSpeed/Default.aspx

After removing this program, its working again!

Not sure if this was the reason but I've seen weired things in my time.

Thanks for your help.

Damian
 
Did you do the fix? If not, I would do so. It can't hurt and you may be
surprised. We are seeing all sorts of weird shell behavior because of
this update - and on computers without HP software. Some machines with
Nvidia hardware have experienced problems, and other software/hardware
combinations.
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I've checked each of the descriptions of supposed causes for this,
all of them turn up negative. But I'm having the wierdest problems
with the browser and the shell. Some web pages won't open until I
click on the link more than once, others work just fine. Some file
downloads, pdf and other sorts of things, act like they are corrupted
when they are opened.
 
Daimo said:
Malke,

Just an update.

I removed the fix (as I was worried about re-booting problems).
I then went thru and removed some recently installed programs and
found a program called linespeedmeter to be the culprit.

http://www.tcpiq.com/tcpIQ/LineSpeed/Default.aspx

After removing this program, its working again!

Not sure if this was the reason but I've seen weired things in my
time.
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I'm glad you got it sorted. Thanks for updating the thread.

Malke
 
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