re: Question: How to restore systray icons after Explorer crashes
Wednesday, January 14, 2004 at 5:46 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by yurmy
(12 messages posted)
Yes as you said, It'd be safe to assume it's not in fact a IRQ issue on your notes.
Tell me this.. You say this issue is rather new? New as in around the times you installed
SP1 or any other XP Patches? I do know from experience as well as reading many posts,complaints,reviews
etc. That SP1 as for myself and others caused complete system instability. As for
myself I experienced alot of GUI lag and memory lag, which resulted into a slow system.
Another option if all else fails maybe to "rollback" SP1, Reinstall the network
from scratch (Start from the network cards being installed,assign ip's so forth).
If the problem persists afterwards thats one thing to rule out which is causing many
of us a big headache. I uninstalled XP completely and went back to Windows 2000,
But that's just me.. As far as system monitoring goes, Honestly I can not offer any
advice on what to use.. In the past I have ran across a few but anymore don't indulge
into such software, For that I apologize.. Off hand tho you may want to look in Windows
Event Viewer. There maybe trace clues to what's going wrong in there. As well you
can setup "Performance Monitor" in such a way you can Add Counters which will also
be logged in Event Viewer if you feel any of the defualt counters will aide in your
finding the issue, As most are for such things as TCP,Server related devices,Cache,CPU
etc. I would maybe recommend using such software as Sisoft Sandra to help diagnose
your computer. Possibly you mentioned they're getting old, CPU,Ram maybe even the
power supply is causing such things. Another thing.. Open console by choosing run
in start menu, Type "CMD" w/out the quotations, Once in console type "sfc /scannow
/quiet" w/out the quotations, What that will do is scan all your system files making
sure they're of correct version and stability for your system. If you wish you may
not include "/quiet" and it will then prompt you for needed files to be replaced..
Lastly I suggest another "Rollback" If the problem happen to start around the time
you updated any device drivers, That too would be a good thing to think about.. Well
goodluck to you. Give some of it a shot, Please let me know if you wiggle the truth
out of the beast..
On Wednesday, January 14, 2004 at 4:18 pm, Bob wrote:
>Thank you for your reply - although I'm embarrassed to admit this, it never occurred
>to me to just end task on the missing icons and restart the programs (I have 4 TSR's
>that lose their icons when Windows Explorer crashes, so it will be tedious but quicker
>than a reboot!).
>
>I'm running Windows XP Home, SP 1 with all current patches installed.
>
>The problem with Windows Explorer crashing when I use it to navigate the hard drive
>started occurring after I'd run this computer for over a year and without any hardware
>changes, so I don't think it's an IRQ conflict or driver problem (I'll check both
>to be sure).
>
>Is there particular monitoring software that you'd recommend for this purpose?
I
>have no problem generating the crash, so the monitoring software may indeed allow
>me to identify the culprit!
>
>Thanks again!
>
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