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    Explorer restarts every 10 seconds

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Yitzter, May 13, 2008.

  1. Yitzter

    Yitzter Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi all, I'm having a bit of an issue here. basically when I open "My computer" in windows, 7 seconds later a window pops up saying it's not responding and needs to restart. I tried this about 20 times and timed it. I don't know what the issue is. I'm running vista ultimate with SP1.

    I'm going to try different things to see if it works. if anyone had this issue, please let me know.

    Cheers.
     
    Yitzter, May 13, 2008
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  2. hanime

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    Did you mean My Computer that leads to C:, D:, E:... drives?
     
    hanime, May 13, 2008
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  3. Yitzter

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    Yes. will edit.
     
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  4. Yitzter

    Yitzter Notebook Evangelist

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    Does anyone know what this means?
     
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  5. chelet

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    Virus? :eek:
     
    chelet, May 13, 2008
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  6. Rhodan

    Rhodan NBR Expert of Nothing

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    What's the exact error message you get?
     
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    Perhaps one of your drives is failing/not ready?
     
    mystery905, May 13, 2008
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  8. Yitzter

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    All very possible reasons. Most unlikely a virus. I have a great Antivirus. (Avira) and I do a full virus and spyware check every week plus I don't go on crappy websites and download crap.

    Only thing I can think of, is a driver problem or that my HD is going bad which I don't think so because everything works perfectly fine. (playing games which creates a lot of HD activity)

    If it still doesn't work itself out I'm gonna try and reinstall vista.
     
    Yitzter, May 13, 2008
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  9. Yitzter

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    for some reason, it looks like it worked itself out. Doesn't happen anymore. I'm going to have to keep a watchful eye on this beast!

    Cheers. Thank you all for your input.
     
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  10. Khris

    Khris Yes I am better than you!

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    I'm willing to bet you installed something that wasn't 100% compatible with Vista.
     
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  11. Yitzter

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    That is a possibility but highly unlikely, I restarted the pc and it worked. must have been a vista bug or something.
     
    Yitzter, May 13, 2008
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    I would check the recent IE plug-in installs. Skype etc. Vista sucks so you might be better off heading back to XP. IE tends to be unstable on Vista.
     
    rocketscientist, May 14, 2008
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  13. Yitzter

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    Dude, I'm talking about EXPLORER.EXE the windows interface! Not Internet Explorer.
     
    Yitzter, May 14, 2008
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