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Basically explorer seems to be restarting itself every 1/2 minutes or so
I don't mean the entire computer, i mean the actual explorer.exe process...
Running windows xp, perhaps a virus? anyone know or experienced this before.
I'm doing an trendmicro housecall check so i'll see how that goes, thanks
If it doesnt popup any error messages then its hard to know why but a scan is the best place to start. ;)
Check the Event Viewer. It may give you a clue to the cause of the problem.
Yes, a good suggestion but unfortunatly the EV usually has vague descriptions or the error code is so broad of a range of potential issues its not very helpful. But hopefully not in this case. ;)
If your scan reveals a trojan and you still experience the problem then look here:
Explorer Restarting Itself
yeah it happened to my gf's computer...
explorer would close itself or something...
never figured out what it was, but a Clean format and new Norton Internet Security did the job
i had this same problem the event viewer will say the thing that is causing the problem (ex user32.dll) if possable try replacing the thing causing the problem with a fresh one
Of course, only from the same OS, if its a Windows XP Home edition don't take a user32.dll from WinXP Pro or Win 98. Bad things might happen if you do...Quote:
Originally Posted by dark_shadow
true trueQuote:
Originally Posted by k1ll3rdr4g0n
i have found that if windows suffers from an error, the best thing is to do a clean install....
windows doesn't recover from errors well
yes i was just using that as an example and i was assuming that da_silvy would be smart enough to know to copy it fro mthe same os