First off, my situation appears to be unique compared to any that have posted on the web so far. I have done extensive google searches and have not come up with an answer to my situation.
For some reason (no unusual software loaded, OS was re-installed 2 days ago with SP3), my File Search or Search in the Startup Menu or a right click on a folder or drive, will not pull up and (this is the unique part) explorer.exe is taking up 1/2 of the all system processes (50%, no more, no less). The taskbar also locks up and the only way to get the taskbar responding is to end process on explorer.exe and due a new task for it (manually).
I've tried everything from Install from Inf folder in Windows (with SP3 extract for one part and Windows XP sp2 CD for another, since I don't have an actual SP3 install CD). I've uninstalled my F-Secure Antivirus/ Firewall and I have ran Spybot checks and fixed anything it found only to arrive back at square one. If anyone is familiar with Kelly's corner, I've done just about anything people have posted on that, but I think my situation is different.
If anyone can shed some light on this crazy situation, I would greatly appreciate it. By the way, I have a desktop system with highly similiar configs and progs running SP3 without this problem. System in question is a Dell 6400 or E1505 Duo Core 1.7GHz, 2 Gig Mem.
Thanks,
Zip
For some reason (no unusual software loaded, OS was re-installed 2 days ago with SP3), my File Search or Search in the Startup Menu or a right click on a folder or drive, will not pull up and (this is the unique part) explorer.exe is taking up 1/2 of the all system processes (50%, no more, no less). The taskbar also locks up and the only way to get the taskbar responding is to end process on explorer.exe and due a new task for it (manually).
I've tried everything from Install from Inf folder in Windows (with SP3 extract for one part and Windows XP sp2 CD for another, since I don't have an actual SP3 install CD). I've uninstalled my F-Secure Antivirus/ Firewall and I have ran Spybot checks and fixed anything it found only to arrive back at square one. If anyone is familiar with Kelly's corner, I've done just about anything people have posted on that, but I think my situation is different.
If anyone can shed some light on this crazy situation, I would greatly appreciate it. By the way, I have a desktop system with highly similiar configs and progs running SP3 without this problem. System in question is a Dell 6400 or E1505 Duo Core 1.7GHz, 2 Gig Mem.
Thanks,
Zip