Help with Win Explorer, please?
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Just this evening I seem to have developed a problem with Windows Explorer (Win XP Home Edition).
While navigating to a sub folder I get the error message that Win Expl. has encountered an error and must close.
Having rebooted twice the problem still persists. It only seems, to happen navigating to this one subfolder ... and I'm a little perplexed.
I'm just running an anti-viral scan and will shortly do an ad-ware scan. That said, I doubt it's either.
Any advice from the more computer literate amongst us?
While navigating to a sub folder I get the error message that Win Expl. has encountered an error and must close.
Having rebooted twice the problem still persists. It only seems, to happen navigating to this one subfolder ... and I'm a little perplexed.
I'm just running an anti-viral scan and will shortly do an ad-ware scan. That said, I doubt it's either.
Any advice from the more computer literate amongst us?
Check your event viewer and see if anything is being logged there?
Right click on 'My Computer'
Click 'manage'
Expand 'Event Viewer'
Take a look at system and application logs for anything recent which has either a red cross or a yellow exclamation mark next to it which corresponds to about the time when the problem happened.
Don't suppose it's a folder full of pictures?
Right click on 'My Computer'
Click 'manage'
Expand 'Event Viewer'
Take a look at system and application logs for anything recent which has either a red cross or a yellow exclamation mark next to it which corresponds to about the time when the problem happened.
Don't suppose it's a folder full of pictures?
aranell said:
Check your event viewer and see if anything is being logged there?
Right click on 'My Computer'
Click 'manage'
Expand 'Event Viewer'
Take a look at system and application logs for anything recent which has either a red cross or a yellow exclamation mark next to it which corresponds to about the time when the problem happened.
Don't suppose it's a folder full of pictures?
There's nothing untoward showing at all. I just repeated what I did before to navigate to that folder and had the same error. Going back to 'system' there were still neither crosses nor exclamation marks.
OK, not the best way to solve this one but....
I've had a couple of work PCs do this in the past month or so. I tend to rename the folder and then create a new folder with the old name. Make sure that the folder you are trying to view hasn't got the thumbnails option set. Ignore the error messages which come up when you go into the folder and just copy and paste all the pics from the old folder into the new one and delete the empty folder.
I've had a couple of work PCs do this in the past month or so. I tend to rename the folder and then create a new folder with the old name. Make sure that the folder you are trying to view hasn't got the thumbnails option set. Ignore the error messages which come up when you go into the folder and just copy and paste all the pics from the old folder into the new one and delete the empty folder.
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