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Explored.exe freezing continually after login.
SOLVED: In the end I had to do a clean factory default wipe of my C: and reinstall windows 7.
I have lost a lot of stuff, but my entire D: full of important data was saved. Alt + F10 at boot.
Hope this helps someone else.
Edit: I've managed to get chkdsk working via the cmd console after selecting "fix computer" from post menu. I have found that many many many segments are unreadable and assume the drive is busted. If anyone has any ideas, or methods of correcting this short of formatting it please let me know. Otherwise I will send it in to acer, thankfully it is still under warranty!
I own an aspire timelineX 4820tg with 4th ram and windows 7.
I use avg antivirus, and have had zero problems on it since I got it.
It has a switchable graphics card mode to save battery power.
That out of the way here is my problem.
Windows boots up okay, offers a dskchk. Okay fine I'll run it.
It stops around 5% sometimes 1% and I'm forced to hard reset it.
Next round I skip the check and load windows normally.
I log in with my password, and then after a while the start bar comes up and the freezing starts. I can move my mouse around, but clicking on anything will result in nothing for ages. Sometimes the action goes through but most apps or explored windows immediately go "not responding".
I have a short window to open the task manager and do some stuff but after a while even this ends up with huge delays. I presume this is a corrupt file on my C: but without chkdsk working I don't know what to do. The CPU spikes every 20-30 seconds and during the freezes even the graphs in the task manager stop.
I click defrag and nothing comes up at all.
I click check for errors and am forced to reschedule till next boot where dskchk hangs again as mentioned above.
I have even resorted to an attempted reset windows 7 to defaults from post. This would probably work but I do not have enough free space on the drive to complete the windows repair.
I have managed to get into msconfig and turn it to diagnostic mode. This makes no difference.
I have made regular restore points but they have amazingly disappeared, all but my original factory default one that I have no interest in.
Safe mode fails at a file called avgidseh.sys and hangs, this I found was related to avg. So I uninstalled it over a long halting freezing time, but further attempt to get to safe mode still stop at the same file?
Cn anyone offer some suggestions? I return to work in three days and desperately need my laptop. It didn't come with a windows 7 disc so I am kinda stuck.
Thank you for reading!
Last edited by brex; 18 Jun 2011 at 07:30. Reason: got chkdsk working