explorer *process* is bunged :(
will my installation survive
Friday, October 27, 2006 by werewolf | Discussion: Personal Computing
Hi all,
My computer has been freezing lately, probably some connection on the motherboard. I think I fixed that part of it, but...
During one session, it froze a number of times very quickly. During reboots, during ad-aware and virus checking sessions, etc.
It seems that now anything in the explorer *process* is verrrrrryyyyyy slow. Sys tray refreshes are slow, taskbar refreshes are slow, opening the start panel, opening windows explorer.exe (it loads quickly, but navigation is painful).
All ad-aware, spy-bot, virus scans are negative and I've used CCleaner.
Applications seem to be running well, but if I use an open/save dialog box and try navigating somewhere, it slows down. Very slow. Go make a sandwich and a cup of coffee slow.
I tried to set a restore point to a date prior to this all happening, but it didn't help. Same problems.
I REALLY don't want to have to re-install the OS, but what other options are there? Is there a way to "re-tune" the explorer process?
Is there anything I can check in the registry, are there any proggies which can do this? Does the system recovery option in the disk handle this?
**update** I just updated FastOne viewer and winamp and the installations were flawless. However, when winamp fired up, I can't do anything with it. Clicking the playlist button did nothing, media library same thing. Can't even move it around the desk top. Have no idea if this has anything to do with my problem or if winamps messed up.
Hope this isn't too much information
I dl'd something using Firefox and when it was done I clicked "open folder". Explorer came right up (I performed those updates mentioned above) and while I had explorer going, I clicked the 'up' button and explorer moved up one folder level. I did this all the way up that one drive. When I clicked 'up' again it went to 'My Computer' and did it's crawling through molasses thing again.
Also, if I right click on something and my mouse hovers over the 'send to' item, I have to wait a couple of minutes before anything happens.
**end update**
Do any of you gurus have any suggestions? I really need to fix this asap.
I thank you so much in advance
David
My computer has been freezing lately, probably some connection on the motherboard. I think I fixed that part of it, but...
During one session, it froze a number of times very quickly. During reboots, during ad-aware and virus checking sessions, etc.
It seems that now anything in the explorer *process* is verrrrrryyyyyy slow. Sys tray refreshes are slow, taskbar refreshes are slow, opening the start panel, opening windows explorer.exe (it loads quickly, but navigation is painful).
All ad-aware, spy-bot, virus scans are negative and I've used CCleaner.
Applications seem to be running well, but if I use an open/save dialog box and try navigating somewhere, it slows down. Very slow. Go make a sandwich and a cup of coffee slow.
I tried to set a restore point to a date prior to this all happening, but it didn't help. Same problems.
I REALLY don't want to have to re-install the OS, but what other options are there? Is there a way to "re-tune" the explorer process?
Is there anything I can check in the registry, are there any proggies which can do this? Does the system recovery option in the disk handle this?
**update** I just updated FastOne viewer and winamp and the installations were flawless. However, when winamp fired up, I can't do anything with it. Clicking the playlist button did nothing, media library same thing. Can't even move it around the desk top. Have no idea if this has anything to do with my problem or if winamps messed up.
Hope this isn't too much information
I dl'd something using Firefox and when it was done I clicked "open folder". Explorer came right up (I performed those updates mentioned above) and while I had explorer going, I clicked the 'up' button and explorer moved up one folder level. I did this all the way up that one drive. When I clicked 'up' again it went to 'My Computer' and did it's crawling through molasses thing again.Also, if I right click on something and my mouse hovers over the 'send to' item, I have to wait a couple of minutes before anything happens.
**end update**
Do any of you gurus have any suggestions? I really need to fix this asap.
I thank you so much in advance
David
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werewolf
Reply #82 Sunday, October 29, 2006 1:19 PM
Reply #82 Sunday, October 29, 2006 1:19 PM
can I just delete the folder c:\windows.0 and delete the entry for it in the boot.ini file?
that doesn't give me back the grub loader but...
that doesn't give me back the grub loader but...
werewolf
Reply #84 Sunday, October 29, 2006 1:43 PM
Reply #84 Sunday, October 29, 2006 1:43 PM
it's not on it's own partition, it installed on my existing partition. In the boot.ini file it's called multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS.0 and there is, of course a corresponding folder on my c: drive called \windows.0 along with the original \windows folder.
werewolf
Reply #86 Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:02 PM
Reply #86 Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:02 PM
lol... you are simply amazing I found a couple of entries in google, but not that article, which, of course, is the one I needed.
well...off to fix the grub. yrag...I can't thank you enough for your time. I'm not exactly sure how this thing got fixed, but it did and that's what count's.
going to reboot and see if it is still fixed. i really should just leave it running. never turn it off again ever for the rest of its life.
oh well, life is short.
I found a couple of entries in google, but not that article, which, of course, is the one I needed.well...off to fix the grub. yrag...I can't thank you enough for your time. I'm not exactly sure how this thing got fixed, but it did and that's what count's.
going to reboot and see if it is still fixed. i really should just leave it running. never turn it off again ever for the rest of its life.
oh well, life is short.
werewolf
Reply #87 Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:10 PM
Reply #87 Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:10 PM
lol (or not)
got an error saying that the hardware abstraction layer dll is missing or corrupt.
i should have known it wasn't going to just fix itself. I don't think I'm going to just be able to replace the hal.dll
yeesh
got an error saying that the hardware abstraction layer dll is missing or corrupt.
i should have known it wasn't going to just fix itself. I don't think I'm going to just be able to replace the hal.dll
yeesh
werewolf
Reply #88 Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:38 PM
Reply #88 Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:38 PM
thhpt...that was easy. that file wasn't corrupt. bootcfg /rebuild fixed it.
yrag
Reply #89 Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:47 PM
Reply #89 Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:47 PM
The partition # in boot.ini was probably wrong, it just corrected it. You should be good to go.....
yrag makes the sign of the cross.....
yrag makes the sign of the cross.....
werewolf
Reply #90 Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:52 PM
Reply #90 Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:52 PM
just burned the ulimatebootcd iso. hopefully I can get my linux boot back and all will be well.
sure wish I knew how that weirdo install fixed my original problem. there should not have been any files touched from the original install.
who knows.
sure wish I knew how that weirdo install fixed my original problem. there should not have been any files touched from the original install.
who knows.
yrag
Reply #91 Sunday, October 29, 2006 3:02 PM
Let's just leave it at "Don't ask, don't tell"
Reply #91 Sunday, October 29, 2006 3:02 PM
| sure wish I knew how that weirdo install fixed my original problem |
Let's just leave it at "Don't ask, don't tell"
werewolf
Reply #93 Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:15 PM
Reply #93 Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:15 PM
grrr...that ubcd didn't really help and I had to 'fixmbr' to undo whatever it did. will try it again.
yrag
Reply #95 Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:35 PM
Reply #95 Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:35 PM
I'm guessing you've had this running right for days.......you just want to get to a 100 
CerebroJD
Reply #96 Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:49 PM
Reply #96 Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:49 PM
You guys using msconfig for anything yet? You can nuke the inCD process in there, as well as misc. other annoying processes.
Start -> Run -> msconfig -> startup tab.
Start -> Run -> msconfig -> startup tab.
werewolf
Reply #97 Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:58 PM
Reply #97 Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:58 PM
yrag I am using that. at the end it says it succeeded, but when I reboot, there seems to be no loader of any kind available.
werewolf
Reply #98 Sunday, October 29, 2006 5:09 PM
Reply #98 Sunday, October 29, 2006 5:09 PM
I know where the menu.lst is in my linux setup. is there anyway I can use boot.ini to just use the ms boot loader?
yrag
Reply #99 Sunday, October 29, 2006 5:18 PM
Reply #99 Sunday, October 29, 2006 5:18 PM
Bring up your boot.ini. Should look something like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
c:\linux.bin="Linux"
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
c:\linux.bin="Linux"
werewolf
Reply #100 Sunday, October 29, 2006 5:52 PM
Reply #100 Sunday, October 29, 2006 5:52 PM
right now it looks like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
I'm looking around google to see what I need to add to it. some are saying I have to extract the mbr from the linux partition, do this, do that, make some file, name it linux.bin copy the file onto the c: drive and then add that last line you have.
currently there is nothing called linux.bin on my hard drives. am trying to dl just the super grub app by itself. says there should be an .iso in a zip file, but I can't find a zip file just bz2
may have found a way...not very elegant but if it works.
[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
I'm looking around google to see what I need to add to it. some are saying I have to extract the mbr from the linux partition, do this, do that, make some file, name it linux.bin copy the file onto the c: drive and then add that last line you have.
currently there is nothing called linux.bin on my hard drives. am trying to dl just the super grub app by itself. says there should be an .iso in a zip file, but I can't find a zip file just bz2
may have found a way...not very elegant but if it works.
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Reply #81 Sunday, October 29, 2006 1:05 PM
I booted into the original install and everything is working fine now.
If I could just get rid of that new install... ?