RazMan
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| posted on 16/5/07 at 08:23 AM |
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Broken Windows Explorer
In Vista my Explorer has suddenly decided to break itself - every time I open it, after a second or two, I get a message 'windows explorer has
stopped working', then 'windows explorer is restarting' and it shuts down.
It still works in safe mode though
Any ideas guys?
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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flak monkey
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| posted on 16/5/07 at 08:42 AM |
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No doubt there will be a patch for it in a month or two 
Oh the joys of new OS's
Have you installed or changed anything since its stopped working? Does it only happen in certain folders, or is it universally badgered?
Vista has a restore function on IIRC, so you could just restore back to when it was working ok. You wont lose any documents or anything.
David
[Edited on 16/5/07 by flak monkey]
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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RazMan
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| posted on 16/5/07 at 08:45 AM |
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It seems to be royally knackered as it won't read anything on any drive - yet all file functions in progs seem fine.
I restored to a previous restore point (I had installed Nero after that one) but still no joy.
I might try a reair installation and see what happens [puts fingers in ears]
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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flak monkey
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| posted on 16/5/07 at 08:49 AM |
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Damn.
Gav is running Vista, he might have some suggestions.
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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ecosse
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| posted on 16/5/07 at 08:55 AM |
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You could try doing a selective startup and removing everything possible from the list to see if that helps things, if it does add them back in until
you get the problem again.
Cheers
Alex
I should add
run - MSconfig, go to startup, untick the boxes and reboot
[Edited on 16/5/07 by ecosse]
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iank
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| posted on 16/5/07 at 09:01 AM |
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Might be an explorer plugin from an application?
From w2k days I remember Adobe Photoshop Elements silently installed and activated a plugin so it it got used to render thumbnails, the speed of
explorer halved and it crashed occasionally until I found and got rid of it.
Run ubuntu linux these days and my problems have reduced to almost nothing.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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RazMan
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| posted on 16/5/07 at 10:45 AM |
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Sorted! It turned out to be a prog in the registry called eomd.exe which didn't exist anywhere in the system. I haven't a clue what it is
and doing a google on it doesn't bring anything up.
Any ideas what it might be? I've deleted the line in the registry anyway and everything is fine now. 
[Edited on 16-5-07 by RazMan]
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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britishtrident
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| posted on 16/5/07 at 02:33 PM |
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eomd.exe dosen't bring any hits on Google which makes me think it might be a new nasty.
It might be an idea to keep an eye on registry changes with HijackThis.
Of course FireFox is the real answer or even better Firefox running on Linux
[Edited on 16/5/07 by britishtrident]
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iank
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 11:58 PM |
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One result now up on google.
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread78389.html
Looking suspiciously like malware.
Running but 'not visible' sounds very bad, especially as it attaches itself to the internet.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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RazMan
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| posted on 18/5/07 at 06:56 AM |
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Yep, that's the little blighter - no problems since I zapped it out of my registry though.
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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