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tinkerlock
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I'm using XP home ed. I have 2 users set up, both as administrative. Everything worked fine until 1 week ago. At that time, a problem began which is only affecting one account. When logged into the problematic account, we can't open windows explorer. I have tried in all of the following ways:
1. From the start menu/all programs double click windows explorer
2. From the start menu, right click "My Computer" and click explore
3. On the desktop, create a new shortcut to explorer.exe and double click that. (While creating the shortcut, I can navigate through the directory tree with no problem.)
4. Start/Run "explorer.exe"
5. Start/Administrative Tools/Command Prompt; cd to c:\windows; type "explorer"
6. Internet explorer works fine for the internet, but I can't put any local path into the address line, such as c:\
All of these methods do work with the other user account I have set up.
I also tried creating a brand new user account and it is exhibiting the same problem.
Here is what happens when I try any of the above methods of opening windows explorer:
The desktop goes blank for a couple of seconds, then the wallpaper comes back and then the icons come back.
I did Ctr-Alt-Del to open up windows task manager, and in the "Processes" tab, explorer.exe is running. When I try to start windows explorer, the CPU usage for explorer.exe goes from 0 to about 57% momentarily. Memory usage for explorer.exe is around 10,868K.
In case it helps, my PC is an athlon XP1800+, w/ 512mb RAM.
Hope someone can help.
Dan.
1. From the start menu/all programs double click windows explorer
2. From the start menu, right click "My Computer" and click explore
3. On the desktop, create a new shortcut to explorer.exe and double click that. (While creating the shortcut, I can navigate through the directory tree with no problem.)
4. Start/Run "explorer.exe"
5. Start/Administrative Tools/Command Prompt; cd to c:\windows; type "explorer"
6. Internet explorer works fine for the internet, but I can't put any local path into the address line, such as c:\
All of these methods do work with the other user account I have set up.
I also tried creating a brand new user account and it is exhibiting the same problem.
Here is what happens when I try any of the above methods of opening windows explorer:
The desktop goes blank for a couple of seconds, then the wallpaper comes back and then the icons come back.
I did Ctr-Alt-Del to open up windows task manager, and in the "Processes" tab, explorer.exe is running. When I try to start windows explorer, the CPU usage for explorer.exe goes from 0 to about 57% momentarily. Memory usage for explorer.exe is around 10,868K.
In case it helps, my PC is an athlon XP1800+, w/ 512mb RAM.
Hope someone can help.
Dan.