Windows Explorer Behaving Badly

My Win XP Professional machine is completely up-to-date but yesterday's
Windows Updates appear to have left a problem. I'm getting numerous
"non-responsive" instances of Windows Explorer and have never, ever had this
problem until now.

Example: Simply opening a Windows Explorer window on My Documents,
minimizing, and then returning later finds a non-responsive window.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your time and energy!

"BobG" wrote:

> My Win XP Professional machine is completely up-to-date but yesterday's
> Windows Updates appear to have left a problem. I'm getting numerous
> "non-responsive" instances of Windows Explorer and have never, ever had this
> problem until now.
>
> Example: Simply opening a Windows Explorer window on My Documents,
> minimizing, and then returning later finds a non-responsive window.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance for your time and energy!


Sorry can't really help but can confirm there is a problem here !

I have 2 machines running XP HOME SP2....Kerio 4.2.2 Firewall........both
were running perfectly until the latest updates were applied.

Both machines were rendered useless this morning and I have had to perform a
Restore to make them usable!

Every time any program or application was started Kerio threw up a warning
dialog......... VERIFY CLASS ID (verclsid .exe) is trying to
start....allow/deny.

Explorer continually froze,IE7 Beta 2 worked to a fashion BUT typing a URL
in the search bar and click go ...nothing happens ...could call URL's from
favourites but each time a url was called or the back button was clicked
the same warning box came up..........Called Thunderbird to read email and
Spybot S+D opened.

Every menu button clicked on produced either a hung/frozen response OR a
warning from the firewall that VERIFY CLASS ID was trying to start, allowing
this and creating a rule for the firewall did nothing to help.

A new file verclsid.exe -28F52AD2.pf was loaded with these updates is this
the problem ,is there a conflict of some kind?

I tried removing the updates one at a time but could not spend any more time
with this problem and cured it by Restoring both systems.

BobG wrote:
> My Win XP Professional machine is completely up-to-date but
> yesterday's Windows Updates appear to have left a problem. I'm
> getting numerous "non-responsive" instances of Windows Explorer and
> have never, ever had this problem until now.
>
> Example: Simply opening a Windows Explorer window on My Documents,
> minimizing, and then returning later finds a non-responsive window.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance for your time and energy!

Seems to be related update KB908351 if it shows in "add/remove then
uninstall it and reboot (some say that it does not show), if it doesn't then
do a system restore as Adrian UK has done.

There are many posts reguarding this update in other newsgroups, MS must
have had a trainiee write this update. LOL

--
Mike Pawlak

MAP wrote:

> Seems to be related update KB908351 if it shows in "add/remove then
> uninstall it and reboot (some say that it does not show), if it doesn't then
> do a system restore as Adrian UK has done.
>
> There are many posts reguarding this update in other newsgroups, MS must
> have had a trainiee write this update. LOL


I think it's KB908531, at least that's the one that I could see on my
computer and uninstalling it seems to have cured the problem. Hope that
was all there's to it.

Andrea

Same problem as BobG's here. Every program that needs to scan the
directory structure becomes unresponsive. That means that, for example,
"save as" doesn't work

KB908351 is not the add/remove list.

System restore? How?

Is there an official way to correct this?

As it is, the machine is practically useless ... Definitively not
LOLing ...

Im having the same issue at this point. Every time you go to open a file in
word, excel, or internet explorer. the process verclsid pop up in taskmgr.
you stop the process everything starts to work untill you change websites or
open a file.

at this point i just renamed all instances of verclsid.exe on the system and
it is working.

"BobG" wrote:

> My Win XP Professional machine is completely up-to-date but yesterday's
> Windows Updates appear to have left a problem. I'm getting numerous
> "non-responsive" instances of Windows Explorer and have never, ever had this
> problem until now.
>
> Example: Simply opening a Windows Explorer window on My Documents,
> minimizing, and then returning later finds a non-responsive window.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance for your time and energy!

Go to Add Remove Programs and check the Show Updates box at the top of the
page. Scroll down and you should see all Hotfixes and other Windows updates.

If not, go to online to Windows Update (or Microsoft Updates) and click
Review Update History to see if it was applied.

To do System Restore, right click My Computer, click Properties, click the
System Restore tab; or click Start then Help and Support - you'll see it.

"" wrote:

> Same problem as BobG's here. Every program that needs to scan the
> directory structure becomes unresponsive. That means that, for example,
> "save as" doesn't work
>
> KB908351 is not the add/remove list.
>
> System restore? How?
>
> Is there an official way to correct this?
>
> As it is, the machine is practically useless ... Definitively not
> LOLing ...
>
>

Aldaroho,

>Go to Add Remove Programs and check the Show Updates box at the top of the
page. Scroll down and you should see all Hotfixes and other Windows
updates.

Thanks. Found it.

When I tried to remove KB908351 I was warned of dependencies, so I
removed, in that order, KB911562, KB912812 and KB908531.

Everything is back to normal now (except that I had to remove the fix
to the IE security problem ...).

Thank you, and to all the others who helped.

I was having the same problem. I tried to remove KB908351, but didn't see it
listed. However, I found a KB908531 that was installed with the last batch
of updates. I removed it and it fixed the problem.

"MAP" wrote:

> BobG wrote:
> > My Win XP Professional machine is completely up-to-date but
> > yesterday's Windows Updates appear to have left a problem. I'm
> > getting numerous "non-responsive" instances of Windows Explorer and
> > have never, ever had this problem until now.
> >
> > Example: Simply opening a Windows Explorer window on My Documents,
> > minimizing, and then returning later finds a non-responsive window.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your time and energy!
>
> Seems to be related update KB908351 if it shows in "add/remove then
> uninstall it and reboot (some say that it does not show), if it doesn't then
> do a system restore as Adrian UK has done.
>
> There are many posts reguarding this update in other newsgroups, MS must
> have had a trainiee write this update. LOL
>
> --
> Mike Pawlak
>
>
>

STRONGLY suggest that you reinstall KB912812 as there are proof of
concepts out on the internet for this vulnerability.
You can manually download it from the link on this page :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS06-013.mspx

For XP SP1 :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...A-099FC57E0129

For XP SP2 :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...1-4ACCEBF72133

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2006]
===============
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgottten
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wrote:

> Aldaroho,
>
>
>>Go to Add Remove Programs and check the Show Updates box at the top of the
>
> page. Scroll down and you should see all Hotfixes and other Windows
> updates.
>
> Thanks. Found it.
>
> When I tried to remove KB908351 I was warned of dependencies, so I
> removed, in that order, KB911562, KB912812 and KB908531.
>
> Everything is back to normal now (except that I had to remove the fix
> to the IE security problem ...).
>
> Thank you, and to all the others who helped.
>