Re: Windows Explorer keeps crashing when I attemp to move files

Mostly I am moving mp3's or avi's, so anywhere from a few KB to up to
1GB. I used to use this machine (750GB hard drive) as my home backup
system, but I can't do this anymore now that Explorer is non-functional.
I just booted up the old drive with XP and it works perfectly. Maybe
the solution is that I have to return to XP until Win7 is out?


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spawnywhippet

 

spawnywhippet wrote:
> Mostly I am moving mp3's or avi's, so anywhere from a few KB to up to
> 1GB. I used to use this machine (750GB hard drive) as my home backup
> system, but I can't do this anymore now that Explorer is non-functional.
> I just booted up the old drive with XP and it works perfectly. Maybe
> the solution is that I have to return to XP until Win7 is out?
>
>


I agree with whoever said run the memory test. If memory has been added
to a machine it's easy to run into a situation where the specs are
"Correct" but the chips don't really "Like" each other due to
manufacturing variables. Example safest way to go from 1GB original to
4GB is to remove all original and install 4GB all bought same place /
same time.

 

"spawnywhippet" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:5cb44f176acbcda7492c6bb2a6f52cfd@nntp-gateway.com...
>
> Mostly I am moving mp3's or avi's, so anywhere from a few KB to up to
> 1GB. I used to use this machine (750GB hard drive) as my home backup
> system, but I can't do this anymore now that Explorer is non-functional.
> I just booted up the old drive with XP and it works perfectly. Maybe
> the solution is that I have to return to XP until Win7 is out?
>
>
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> spawnywhippet

As you can copy/move in safe mode it may be a troublesome Explorer shell
extension loaded by some third-party software.
Have a look at ShellExView from Nirsoft.
You can disable Explorer shell extensions one by one, (it's a free program).

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

 

> spawnywhippetAs you can copy/move in safe mode it may be a troublesome
> Explorer shell
> extension loaded by some third-party software.
> Have a look at ShellExView from Nirsoft.
> You can disable Explorer shell extensions one by one, (it's a free
> program).
>
> 'ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows'
> (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html)I ran the shellmenuview, and the greyed out items it reported as
"disabled" were all media player files. I selected all of those files,
and "enabled" them and now my system is perfect.

Thank you very much


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lmastro08