Stuff stops working-

This is a little off topic but..stuff that had been working for months,
through Beta 2 and Release candidates and RTM suddenly quit working.

Two days ago I.E. 7 stopped working. When I click the icon, or even double
click the executable, there is a brief flash (sometimes two flashes) as a
window tries to open, but closes within half a second.

At the same time, all data in control panel's "Vista view" disappeared.
When opened, it shows the left pane, with choices "Control Panel Home" and
"Classic View". Classic view is fine. "Home" opens a completely blank
right pane.

Since I prefer Classic, and frequently use firefox, these are not
disastrous, but I sure as heck am wondering what caused it. There are no
indications in the App or System logs to give me a clue.....

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

Mike

And-- I forgot. Two things. A.) It's Vista Ultimate. B.) Search has
stopped working as well.

Or rather, Search from the start menu fails to open. Search from the right
click context menu after right clicking a drive icon fails to work as well.
However, it *does* work from the search bar in windows explorer.

WTF? Vista and Office 2007 have been completely updated as of today, so I
don't think an update will cure the problem.

Any ideas?

thanks!

Mike


"dubya" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> This is a little off topic but..stuff that had been working for months,
> through Beta 2 and Release candidates and RTM suddenly quit working.
>
> Two days ago I.E. 7 stopped working. When I click the icon, or even
> double click the executable, there is a brief flash (sometimes two
> flashes) as a window tries to open, but closes within half a second.
>
> At the same time, all data in control panel's "Vista view" disappeared.
> When opened, it shows the left pane, with choices "Control Panel Home" and
> "Classic View". Classic view is fine. "Home" opens a completely blank
> right pane.
>
> Since I prefer Classic, and frequently use firefox, these are not
> disastrous, but I sure as heck am wondering what caused it. There are no
> indications in the App or System logs to give me a clue.....
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
>

Tried a repair reinstall?


"dubya" <> wrote in message
news:...
> And-- I forgot. Two things. A.) It's Vista Ultimate. B.) Search has
> stopped working as well.
>
> Or rather, Search from the start menu fails to open. Search from the
> right click context menu after right clicking a drive icon fails to work
> as well. However, it *does* work from the search bar in windows explorer.
>
> WTF? Vista and Office 2007 have been completely updated as of today, so
> I don't think an update will cure the problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks!
>
> Mike
>
>
> "dubya" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> This is a little off topic but..stuff that had been working for months,
>> through Beta 2 and Release candidates and RTM suddenly quit working.
>>
>> Two days ago I.E. 7 stopped working. When I click the icon, or even
>> double click the executable, there is a brief flash (sometimes two
>> flashes) as a window tries to open, but closes within half a second.
>>
>> At the same time, all data in control panel's "Vista view" disappeared.
>> When opened, it shows the left pane, with choices "Control Panel Home"
>> and "Classic View". Classic view is fine. "Home" opens a completely
>> blank right pane.
>>
>> Since I prefer Classic, and frequently use firefox, these are not
>> disastrous, but I sure as heck am wondering what caused it. There are no
>> indications in the App or System logs to give me a clue.....
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
>

Thanks, not yet. Am trying to avoid.

"DP" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Tried a repair reinstall?
>
>
> "dubya" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> And-- I forgot. Two things. A.) It's Vista Ultimate. B.) Search has
>> stopped working as well.
>>
>> Or rather, Search from the start menu fails to open. Search from the
>> right click context menu after right clicking a drive icon fails to work
>> as well. However, it *does* work from the search bar in windows explorer.
>>
>> WTF? Vista and Office 2007 have been completely updated as of today,
>> so I don't think an update will cure the problem.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> "dubya" <> wrote in message
>> news:%...
>>> This is a little off topic but..stuff that had been working for months,
>>> through Beta 2 and Release candidates and RTM suddenly quit working.
>>>
>>> Two days ago I.E. 7 stopped working. When I click the icon, or even
>>> double click the executable, there is a brief flash (sometimes two
>>> flashes) as a window tries to open, but closes within half a second.
>>>
>>> At the same time, all data in control panel's "Vista view" disappeared.
>>> When opened, it shows the left pane, with choices "Control Panel Home"
>>> and "Classic View". Classic view is fine. "Home" opens a completely
>>> blank right pane.
>>>
>>> Since I prefer Classic, and frequently use firefox, these are not
>>> disastrous, but I sure as heck am wondering what caused it. There are
>>> no indications in the App or System logs to give me a clue.....
>>>
>>> Anyone have any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>
>>
>

dubya;539843 Wrote:
> This is a little off topic but..stuff that had been working for months
> through Beta 2 and Release candidates and RTM suddenly quit working
>
> Two days ago I.E. 7 stopped working. When I click the icon, or eve
> doubl
> click the executable, there is a brief flash (sometimes two flashes) a
>
> window tries to open, but closes within half a second
>
> At the same time, all data in control panel's "Vista view" disappeared
> When opened, it shows the left pane, with choices "Control Panel Home
> an
> "Classic View". Classic view is fine. "Home" opens a completely blan
> right pane
>
> Since I prefer Classic, and frequently use firefox, these are no
> disastrous, but I sure as heck am wondering what caused it. There ar
> n
> indications in the App or System logs to give me a clue....
>
> Anyone have any ideas
>
> Thanks
>
> Mik

Try running Intenet Explorer with no addons. It may be that a bad I
extension is killing it

Press <WINKEY>+<R> to open the run box, then type "iexplore.ex
-extoff" (without the quotes) and press <ENTER> or click OK

You might also want to scan for malware

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"dzomlija" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> dubya;539843 Wrote:
>> This is a little off topic but..stuff that had been working for months,
>> through Beta 2 and Release candidates and RTM suddenly quit working.
>>
>> Two days ago I.E. 7 stopped working. When I click the icon, or even
>> double
>> click the executable, there is a brief flash (sometimes two flashes) as
>> a
>> window tries to open, but closes within half a second.
>>
>> At the same time, all data in control panel's "Vista view" disappeared.
>> When opened, it shows the left pane, with choices "Control Panel Home"
>> and
>> "Classic View". Classic view is fine. "Home" opens a completely blank
>> right pane.
>>
>> Since I prefer Classic, and frequently use firefox, these are not
>> disastrous, but I sure as heck am wondering what caused it. There are
>> no
>> indications in the App or System logs to give me a clue.....
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mike
>
> Try running Intenet Explorer with no addons. It may be that a bad IE
> extension is killing it.
>
> Press <WINKEY>+<R> to open the run box, then type "iexplore.exe
> -extoff" (without the quotes) and press <ENTER> or click OK.
>
> You might also want to scan for malware.
--
> dzomlija
> ____________________________________
> Peter Alexander Dzomlija

Thanks, Peter. I have, several times, scanned and turned off add-ons. Same
difference.

I figured out how to make IE open by monitoring it in Process Explorer, then
changing the permissions on the registry keys it seemed to fail at.

So... now it opens......... as a basket case. Completely locked. It will
not go to a web page, merely telling me that www.whatever is currently
unavailable. It will not open Internet Options. And it will not even
close - it has to be killed with task manager. Call me baffled. Of course
the web pages are available. Firefox on the same computer is working fine.
Windows mail is working fine.
So all network connections should be okay.

I have a suspicion it has to do with Search mostly not working, which also
may have to do with registry permissions. But since both IE and Search once
worked, I cannot get a clue to what might have changed those permissions.
Whatever it was, is the culprit.
Mike

dubya;541825 Wrote:
> So... now it opens......... as a basket case. Completely locked. I
> will not go to a web page, merely telling me that www.whatever i
> currently
> unavailable. It will not open Internet Options. And it will not eve
> close - it has to be killed with task manager. Call me baffled. O
> course the web pages are available. Firefox on the same computer i
> working fine. Windows mail is working fine.
> So all network connections should be okay.
>
> I have a suspicion it has to do with Search mostly not working, whic
> also
> may have to do with registry permissions. But since both IE and Searc
> once
> worked, I cannot get a clue to what might have changed thos
> permissions.
> Whatever it was, is the culprit.
> Mike

The problem I have with IE7 is similar, but I suspect it is caused i
some kind of memory leak that doesn't get corrected when it closes.
notice this most often after several hours of use.

I usually correct the problem by ending it with task manager, and the
it re-opens ok..

--
dzomlij

___________________________________
Peter Alexander Dzomlij
Do you hear, huh? The Alpha and The Omega? Death and Rebirth? -And a
you die, so shall I be Reborn-..

- ASUS A8N32-SLI-Delux
- AMD Athlon 64 Dual-Core 4800
- 4GB DDR40
- 128MB ASUS nVidia 6600 PCI-Expres
- Thermaltake Tai-Chi Watercooled Chassi
- 1207GB Total Formatted Storag
- Vista Ultimate x6
- CodeGear Delphi 2007See my rig at
http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee312/Dzomlija/Venus

My Weblog
'http://dzomlija.spaces.live.com/' (http://dzomlija.spaces.live.com/)

I am having an extremely similar problem, and google is starting to
bring back more people asking the same question.

The problem is Start Menu related. Each person has some portion of the
start menu just quit working for them.

In my case, it's all the "Pin To Start Menu" icons and recent icons
(the left side of the menu). I can go to Start | Programs and launch a
program that way, but the recent programs list and the pin list don't
work at all. This "just started happening" a few months ago, but I'm
not sure what the culprit is.

I've tried removing the icons and bringing them back...no joy.

There's something wrong with the start menu in Vista...at this point
I'm just waiting for SP1 to fix it.


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