problem with explorer.exe on startup also dvd rom problems

[R4nd13H4nd13]

hello everyone, as i have been enjoying windows 7 since the 6956 build and even then i had these problems:

on startup explorer only seems to halfway start, i have to end the xplorer process then start a new explorer task to get the computer to boot.

also the dvd drive doesnt allways work, it just kinda dissapears every once in a while.


other than that i am digging this new os, looks like microsoft is trying to fix vista. woot!

if anyone knows how to fix these issues please let me know, if i can get these fixed then i will be able to switch to 7 tottaly

 

[darkassain]

hello everyone, as i have been enjoying windows 7 since the 6956 build and even then i had these problems:

on startup explorer only seems to halfway start, i have to end the xplorer process then start a new explorer task to get the computer to boot.

also the dvd drive doesnt allways work, it just kinda dissapears every once in a while.


other than that i am digging this new os, looks like microsoft is trying to fix vista. woot!

if anyone knows how to fix these issues please let me know, if i can get these fixed then i will be able to switch to 7 tottaly

is this a fresh system???
what software did you install??
if it is a fresh system then what hardware do you have???

 

[linuzo]

Well I have been encountering a problem with explorer when I goto Computer and then it freezes or something. Then I have to kill the task, after that the Control Panel or anything that required explorer will not open. Even if I kill explorer.exe process and start it again.

I thought this might have had something to do with Virtual Clone Drive so I uninstalled it and we will see if that makes a difference now. Any suggestions what to use for mounting iso's?

Thanks

Oh Did I mention this is on build 7000 on my Dell M1330 XPS Laptop. , I guess I should update my info. lol

 

[darkassain]

use iso disk...
its here in the free programs for windows 7 sticky

 

[R4nd13H4nd13]

i have vista on one partition, this is a brand new laptop and i installed 6956 on the other partition and i started having this problem i continued testing 7 with everything else i could, and all seems to work well except for these things, i havnt done anything out of the ordinary to this OS. does having the 2 different paritions messing with my explorer.exe? i thought there were two different ones on each partition

 

[darkassain]

i have vista on one partition, this is a brand new laptop and i installed 6956 on the other partition and i started having this problem i continued testing 7 with everything else i could, and all seems to work well except for these things, i havnt done anything out of the ordinary to this OS. does having the 2 different paritions messing with my explorer.exe? i thought there were two different ones on each partition

nothing like that will happen...

what i am more interersted is in what hardware you have installed and if you have any usb devices plugged in when this happens??

 

[R4nd13H4nd13]

no usb devices on bootup, its a laptop so nothing is plugged in, i wonder if i can set up a scheduler to restart explorer after it starts and that might be a good work around but i think that explorer has to be fully running in order to schedual anyting like that

 

[darkassain]

then what model laptop is this???
you can actually do that but wouldnt explorer restart??

 

[R4nd13H4nd13]

asus m50

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

i thought that explorer was the first to load, then the schedualer or startup folder gets ran, if i could get the startup folder to run i could dosome old school bat files and make it run once to restart explorer, but i think explorer will have to be running completely before that can happen:huh:

 

[darkassain]

actually you can


this is temporary fix...

taskkill /im explorer.exe

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe

save it as a bat file
have you had any notices on driver updates
or did you install vista's??

 

[R4nd13H4nd13]

ok i tried using that in the startup but it doesnt work that way, i put it in my documents and for some reason my docs is the only thing that i see when windows boots up so ijust put the bat in ther and now everytime it boots i have to manually run the bat file but now i dont have to do a 3 key and do all this crap just to boot, its actually doable for the time being, thanks man, now i need to find a way to fix this confused dvd drive, the thing is, it detects the drive sometimes but then it will disapear, this is a new laptop so im sure its not the drive, it also works well with vista so it may be a driver but i havnt been able to find anything for it

 

[darkassain]

okay for it to start up like you want you have to ask yourself
do you want to it to start only for you or everyone???
every user

HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run

only for u

HKEY CURRENT USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run

open regedit and navigate to there


right-click
new
string file
Name it something you recognize and then in the value data put the file name for the bat...(put the bat somewhere you can easily locate like in the root C: (ex "C:\explorerfix.bat") it should start on the next logon...

now i need to find a way to fix this confused dvd drive, the thing is, it detects the drive sometimes but then it will disapear, this is a new laptop so im sure its not the drive, it also works well with vista so it may be a driver but i havnt been able to find anything for it

can you unninstall the driver of this disc???

right click my computer..

properties

Device Manager

there locate your drive right click and click unnistall...
before you restart your computer take the drive out (if you cant then just restart)
start completely with the drive gone and restart it again but this time with the drive in...