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re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear
Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 2:27 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ali
(3 messages posted)
Hi John (and everyone trying to beat this problem)...
So, I am married to this brilliant MS Windows developer, (who wasn't available when
I was trying to sort this out earlier)... and he just fixed my current problem of
the disappearing icons. In this case he: Right clicked on the blank desktop; then
clicked on "Arrange icons by"; then scrolled down to "Show desktop icons" (which
had mysteriously de-selected itself) - re-enabled it (with a tick [check mark for
you non-brit guys and girls]) and guess what? Up they popped, as though they had
just been on holiday!!! Anyway - clearly something odd going on with XP, but this
might help some sufferers.
Thanks for all your thoughts and efforts everyone...
On a possibly connected line of thought...I had a sudden memory recall based on some
of John's comments...I too have had other problems: programs unable to close down
properly without resorting to "end now"; screen freezing; intermittent patchy screen
painting; etc. I remembered a previous occasion when I experienced a run of these
type of problems on a laptop. They seemed isolated and I didn't take them as warning
signs - but maybe I should have - after a while my laptop died completely and I lost
everything on the hard disk. Even a replacement hard disk didn't revive the laptop
- so I don't know if the motherboard failed. Either way, I lost everything - so if
any of you are having multiple problems (John et al) I should do regular independent
full backups to protect your work. Bye for now...
On Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 2:44 am, J0HN wrote:
>No closer to solving this ...
>Starting to believe it might even be a number of problems
>I no longer run Norton Anti Virus Corp Edit and that seems to help a little bit
...
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>Still getting it sometimes ...
>
>Now its more when I file tries to be saved and the save dialog pops up ... it takes
>ages to pop up ...
>
>Not sure if this is a firefox thunderbird or explorer (windows not ie) issue ...
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