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Explorer Bug?
Hi guys, new to the forum. Registered specifically to get help with this blasted issue I've been having. I am unable to recreate the problem, as it seems to be one of those things where Microsoft's horrible crap decides to malfunction all on its own, seemingly for no reason and with seemingly no trigger.
Alright, here's the problem. This is the 4th time this has happened in the past 2 months. I'll be doing my own little thing as usual, which is talking to buddies on WLM and browsing the internet using Firefox, when all of a sudden my WLM hangs and freezes, displaying the "(Not Responding)" tag in the window bar. Waiting for it to fix itself does nothing, because it will not fix itself. At this point, my internet browsing also becomes useless. I can do nothing in any Explorer windows, such as move files, open files, view files, delete files, etc, etc. In the Task Manager, Explorer.exe shows no signs of activity, as it does when you do normal things; the memory usage fluctuates, the CPU usage fluctuates, etc. when you do things. It doesn't do this, however. Upon ending explorer and trying to restart it, it sits there in the processes list, doing nothing. It sits at an extremely low memory consumption, reporting a static 928 KB of memory usage. I can't run the command prompt, I can't do anything, really. Nothing that seems to have a direct reliance on explorer.exe will function. At this point, I am FORCED to do a hard boot. I have tried everything I can think of to determine what causes this. It is highly frustrating, and I just can't seem to find out what in the world causes it! As I said, I can't reproduce it at my own will, it's one of those things Windows does that just seems to have a mind of its own where it says "OH HEY TIME TO GIVE THE USER A HARD TIME AND MALFUNCTION!! BZZT!" One of those sorts of things. Anyone have any ideas or further questions about it?
EDIT: Forgot to mention my OS. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x86.
Last edited by Ar7ific1al; 14 Nov 2010 at 00:36. Reason: OS