Explorer.exe

Sometimes when im browsing explorer.exe restarts, I assume its that anyway, the taskbar goes away then it comes back after a while, when its happening whatever program is open crashes for a minutes or so.

Ive ran Anti-Virus (Symantec) and Spyware Doctor in Safe Mode and it still happens, anyone got any help for me? :huh:

 

reformatting every so often helps.

other than that, no. no idea.

 

Same thing used to happen to me, but it would restart whenever I opened control panel,lol. I updated my windows to SP2,and the problem went away, did the trick for my pc freezing too. If you haven't, update to sp2, if you already updated, then I dunno.

 

I recently got it. Its a type of virus which corrupts your explorer.exe The only way to restore your explorer is to install the explorer files back again which is to reformat.

 

so im right.

 

Well, you can try doing the repair option instead of reformat but it doesn't always work.

 

I have SP2 waiting to be installed in the automatic updates, but it takes a while to install, I think I'll install it when i finish checking the forum, thanks

 

i reformat about once a year.

 

Thats not what I call 'every so often'

 

how do you reformat, someone tell me please,

 

Google's your friend. Google: How to Reformat

 

Since I got SP2 its happened once, and it says:

"To help protect your computer, Windows has closed this program.

Name: Windows Explorer"

:S

 

I restart whenever my system lags or anything. You can copy an explorer.exe from the WindowsXP CD to your computer. This way, you don't have to reformat it.

 

I'll try that out, thanks