re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 7:44 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by J0HN (6 messages posted) The number one problem will be another program that is running in the background. For me it was Norton Anti Virus with Real Time Protection. Once I turned that off everything started working fine. I have found that a lot of non power users seem to run a lot of programs that all sit in the tray (next to the clock) even when they are not being used. This includes programs that put themselves there by default like MSN and AOL and Quicktime and Real Media etc. Even power users have viruses and spyware from time to time. So you want to shut down anything you dont really need. You dont really need virus protection software running and it wont stop you from getting the newest virii even though they claim otherwise. So start by shutting down programs you dont ever use and move on to shutting one more down one at a time until the problem is fixed. Learn about the process manager and what process you can kill and what starts up at boot time (more that just those in the start up menu ... some services are not neccessary too) Then switch to ubuntu. :) Written in response to: re: Windows XP Explorer Crashing / Desktop 10 sec fresh icons vanish and reappear (Du_Kine: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 7:36 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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