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re: Explorer.exe Freezing Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 12:14 pm Posted by Charlie Hadden (1338 messages posted) Not being able to see your machine I am gong to make a guess here about your experience. I must give an example or two so don't get lost on program names etc. I know they have noting to do with your setup. Vista does what I can only guess MS considers 'multi-tasking' differently than previous versions of Windows. And in doing so many tasks that were taken care of in the background in the older versions and we never paid any attention to them, now make us pause and wait for them to finish. And we end up getting impatient and really jack it up trying to force it along. Example: I do a lot of editing of enormous music files in Adobe Audition. Now I have a VERY fast machine and yet when I save a file (sometimes 1 or 2 gig) it of course takes what seems like forever. Now most of the time it finishes without as much as a warning. If I click on anything and expect to continue before it finishes, it puts up the warning that it is 'Not Working'. If I leave it alone it will finish OK, but if I interfere with it some more it will crash the program and sometimes even Vista. I can do the same thing on my XP machine and it won't take control of the program like that. It is just slower than a snail because its an old 32 bit XP machine with no special processor or extra memory resources. See if that explains anything similar to your issue and if it might relax your expectations some. You might try changing the resource focus from 'active program' to 'background activity' and see if that helps some. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Explorer.exe Freezing Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 8:07 pm Posted by Frontier (37 messages posted) That's just it, though. The issue doesn't occur when you would expect. I was editing some massive images the other day, and while it paused for a moment here and there, it was to be expected with images of 100+ megabytes each. That said, it did not lock-up. It worked better than I've ever experienced in prior machines when handling big files. It seems to lock up instead when I'm just doing one or two little things. I'll have a few windows open, and go to open another file folder, and that specific double-click will cause it to freeze up. I can still access the other open folders and programs, but I can't access the latest one I'm trying to. So I CTRL+ALT+DEL and end explorer and restart it, double-click the folder again, and it works that time. How would I change the resource thing you spoke of? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Explorer.exe Freezing Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 5:48 am Posted by Charlie Hadden (1338 messages posted) Go to Control Panel/System/Advanced/Performance/Settings/Advanced/Background services/Apply. Now have you ever gone into the exact same area and changed the amount of Virtual memory? If so put it back to 'System Managed Size'. In Vista, this no longer needs nor should be changed. Memory and HD space is too cheep these days to fool with this. The only reason I know of to change anything in this area is if you have a second (fast) drive you could move the Virtual memory to that second drive allowing the machine not have to do double duty on one drive. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Explorer.exe Freezing Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 1:18 am Posted by Frontier (37 messages posted) I'm still having this issue. It only occurs due to file folders; no programs are running that cause it. No programs freeze, just a file folder, say C:Users, or C:Program Files, for examples. I'll click into them, and... freeze. Or I'll be in them, click into a sub-folder, select a file... and freeze. I read something about it being with the ram? That it's got to do with the dual core? *shakes head* You google "explorer.exe hang" or "explorer.exe freeze" on vista 64 and you get DOZENS of pages of results -- and not one clear answer. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Explorer.exe Freezing Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 2:15 pm Posted by Charlie Hadden (1338 messages posted) Sounds more like a corrupted registry entry somewhere. It holds very little logic that memory or a processor would behave so specifically to folder requests and not have any problem running programs. Look into your response regarding all of those other suggestions. NO answers and no logic. Explorer.exe is just another program. It does have a ton more registry associations that any one of which gone missing or changed could cause the type of problem you are having. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Explorer.exe Freezing Monday, November 9, 2009 at 10:35 am Posted by Frontier (37 messages posted) How would I look into this? Is there a specific program to run? On Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 2:15 pm, Charlie Hadden wrote: >Sounds more like a corrupted registry entry somewhere. It holds very little logic >that memory or a processor would behave so specifically to folder requests and not >have any problem running programs. > >Look into your response regarding all of those other suggestions. NO answers and >no logic. Explorer.exe is just another program. It does have a ton more registry >associations that any one of which gone missing or changed could cause the type of >problem you are having. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Explorer.exe Freezing Monday, November 9, 2009 at 11:48 am Posted by Charlie Hadden (1338 messages posted) You would be lookin g for one of those registry fixing programs. The only thing is that I do not trust any of them as they tend to cause more problems than they fix. A couple of possible answers might be MS's own Live OneCare BETA on-line free. This one being made by MS themselves is a little better as they know their own produce. Secondly is use any of the ones available that let you look over the errors they find and see if you can discover a solution. This would be very iffy at best. I am not a fan of telling people to re-install but yo may be one case that this turns out to be the best and fastest answer. On Monday, November 9, 2009 at 10:35 am, Frontier wrote: > >How would I look into this? Is there a specific program to run? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Explorer.exe Freezing Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:09 pm Posted by Frontier (37 messages posted) The thing is, I've seen a lot of other people having errors with Explorer.exe and Vista 64 bit. Or even Vista 32. Some of them have the error in conjunction with programs. Others have it like me. And everyone says different solutions, and no one reports them working... It's just insane. There has to be a way to figure this out. On Monday, November 9, 2009 at 11:48 am, Charlie Hadden wrote: > >You would be lookin g for one of those registry fixing programs. The only thing is >that I do not trust any of them as they tend to cause more problems than they fix. >A couple of possible answers might be MS's own Live OneCare BETA on-line free. This >one being made by MS themselves is a little better as they know their own produce. >Secondly is use any of the ones available that let you look over the errors they >find and see if you can discover a solution. This would be very iffy at best. I am >not a fan of telling people to re-install but yo may be one case that this turns >out to be the best and fastest answer. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Explorer.exe Freezing Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:15 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 messages posted) In addition to all of the OS components explorer interacts with it has to deal with all the running programs including background processes. You will never find a single simple answer to a problem with so many possible causes. Look in the event viewer on the computer for clues to troubleshoot it. On Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:09 pm, Frontier wrote: > >The thing is, I've seen a lot of other people having errors with Explorer.exe and >Vista 64 bit. Or even Vista 32. Some of them have the error in conjunction with >programs. Others have it like me. And everyone says different solutions, and no >one reports them working... > >It's just insane. There has to be a way to figure this out. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum