Very unstable file manager (Explorer.exe)

Hi,

Has anyone else stability problems with WIndows Filemanager? I seldom
manages to rename a file because it crashes. I have to use anything else to
do the fileoperations I need to do, for example Filezilla...

I'm just curious if this is a widespread problem or isolated to my computer.

Thanks for any input,
Pontus

 

I had numerous problems with explorer.exe when I had 'upgraded' from XP.
All went away when I did a clean install to a drive formatted during the
install process.

 

Hi,

Virtually no problems with explorer here, on either a clean install or an
upgrade from XP. I would suspect interference from some third party software
that you've installed.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

Hi,

Yes, my installation is a semi-clean one - installed on an old ntfs
partition created under w2k... The disk was used as data storage only and
had no OS whatsoever. That might be it then.

Thanks for your input!
Pontus

 

I've had trouble with copying a large number of files using explorer
(thousands of files) on occasion, Explorer will stop responding and
eventually the OS will close and reopen it. I've had trouble with XP with
the same operations, only it doesn't close Explorer for me, I have to
manually stop the process when it locks on me.

Usually just trying again fixes whatever was the problem.

Mic

 

I find it helpful to have the "Open new windows in separate processes"
option checked in the Folder options. It requires more memory if you have
multiple windows open, but it's better than closing all open windows, plus
the taskbar, when just one window gets messed up.