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Someone help before I tear ALL my hair out This just started 3 days
ago. I have not installed any new software, and don't think I have
made any changes knowingly to my system.
When I do a right click on MY Computer and select Explore, Windows
Explorer starts up showing My Computer, My Documents, My Network
Places, and Norton Protected Recycle Bim under DESKTOP in the FOLDERS
window. Some have a small plus and some donlt. In the right or files
window, it is blank fow a ssecond or two and then the flashlight
appears scanning left to right and back. This keeps on for about 2
minutes and then the drives are displayed both in the right window and
also in the left window under MY COMPUTER.
It seems as though Explorer has forgotten the drive configuration and
needs to reconstuct it everytime. The other thing that happens seems
to bear this out. When I go to save a file, the save dialog pops up
and is usually in My Documents - but it could be others depending on
which app I am trying to save from. If I don't want this folder, I
can click in the drop down bar that displays My Documents or other
folder and normally I would expect to see drives and folder dropdown
to allow me to drill down to the desired folder. But in this case, it
sits for a long time and then showa the drop down list of drives and
folders almostas if it had to do a search all over again to
reconstruct the disk configuration before showing the drop down.
Another instance seems to follow this: when doing a rigth click on a
file to do a SEND TO then right click menu pops up and highlights the
SEND TO item, but freezes until a few minutes pass and then it
displays all the SEND TO options in the cascading menu. I interpret
tihs to be a delay while the contents of a Send YTo folder is located
after searching to reconstruct the disk configuration?
I have only 2 users on my system and this happens with both.
I have run AdAware Pro, Spybot, Norton Antivirus and Microsoft
Antispyware, all with no findings. I have does other things like a
registry scan, system optimizer and similar tasks in Tune UP
Utilkities, all with no effect. Windows Update is all caught up. I
have doen many hardware tests (MEMTEST86, and Checkit hardware
diagnostics And whatever I could do without destroying system data.
Everything has turned up negative.
Can someone tell me where the disk configuration for explorer is kept
? or better still what or who is doing the searching the brings up
the flashlight ? It sometimes appears on my system when I open Add or
Remove programs in control panel.
For the sake of my hair, please help or point me to somewhere to look
or try.
Thanks to all.
Soon to be bald JungleJim
Someone help before I tear ALL my hair out This just started 3 days
ago. I have not installed any new software, and don't think I have
made any changes knowingly to my system.
When I do a right click on MY Computer and select Explore, Windows
Explorer starts up showing My Computer, My Documents, My Network
Places, and Norton Protected Recycle Bim under DESKTOP in the FOLDERS
window. Some have a small plus and some donlt. In the right or files
window, it is blank fow a ssecond or two and then the flashlight
appears scanning left to right and back. This keeps on for about 2
minutes and then the drives are displayed both in the right window and
also in the left window under MY COMPUTER.
It seems as though Explorer has forgotten the drive configuration and
needs to reconstuct it everytime. The other thing that happens seems
to bear this out. When I go to save a file, the save dialog pops up
and is usually in My Documents - but it could be others depending on
which app I am trying to save from. If I don't want this folder, I
can click in the drop down bar that displays My Documents or other
folder and normally I would expect to see drives and folder dropdown
to allow me to drill down to the desired folder. But in this case, it
sits for a long time and then showa the drop down list of drives and
folders almostas if it had to do a search all over again to
reconstruct the disk configuration before showing the drop down.
Another instance seems to follow this: when doing a rigth click on a
file to do a SEND TO then right click menu pops up and highlights the
SEND TO item, but freezes until a few minutes pass and then it
displays all the SEND TO options in the cascading menu. I interpret
tihs to be a delay while the contents of a Send YTo folder is located
after searching to reconstruct the disk configuration?
I have only 2 users on my system and this happens with both.
I have run AdAware Pro, Spybot, Norton Antivirus and Microsoft
Antispyware, all with no findings. I have does other things like a
registry scan, system optimizer and similar tasks in Tune UP
Utilkities, all with no effect. Windows Update is all caught up. I
have doen many hardware tests (MEMTEST86, and Checkit hardware
diagnostics And whatever I could do without destroying system data.
Everything has turned up negative.
Can someone tell me where the disk configuration for explorer is kept
? or better still what or who is doing the searching the brings up
the flashlight ? It sometimes appears on my system when I open Add or
Remove programs in control panel.
For the sake of my hair, please help or point me to somewhere to look
or try.
Thanks to all.
Soon to be bald JungleJim
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