RE: Starting Windows Explorer causes my laptop to slow to a crawl

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: (100)
Event ID: 1000
Date: 7/5/2008
Time: 11:52:32 PM
User: N/A
Computer: FAMILYROOM
Description:
Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.3156, faulting module
unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x1000b1db.

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Data:
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0018: 6c 6f 72 65 72 2e 65 78 lorer.ex
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0050: 30 62 31 64 62 0b1db

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Pam


"Luther393" wrote:

> I have two Dell laptops, both running Windows Media Center 2005. A few weeks
> ago my Inspiron 6000 started to respond extremely slowly when starting
> Explorer to copy files. (It takes 6-8 minutes for it to even appear on
> screen). In the meantime, everything else is "frozen" as well. I end up
> having to power down and restart to do anything. If I don't use Explorer, the
> PC runs fine: this includes internet access, MS Office programs, graphics
> programs, utility scans, etc. It's just Explorer that's the problem. If I use
> "My Computer" I am able to do what I need to do, so that's been my
> work-around lately and it appears to function okay. The other day I started
> up Explorer (w/o thinking) and it popped up and ran fine. Thinking it was
> okay now, I started it a second time to check it out and this time it ran
> slowly as previously mentioned. After 15 minutes I powered down.
> The older Dell Latitude started doing the same thing about the same time as
> the Inspiron. The laptops are an older Latitude P3 650 MHz (512MB RAM, 20GB
> HD) and the other is a newer Inspiron Centrino 1.6 GHz (512MB RAM, 40GB HD).
> All MS updates, including the batch on 10/10/06, have been installed w/o a
> problem.
> I'm running Panda Titanium Antivirus, CounterSpy, and Spyware Doctor (latest
> updates installed) on both machines and none found any viruses or spyware on
> either laptop when the full system was scanned. I tried XP Repair Pro 2006
> and RegCure but neither helped solve the problem.
> I'm not having any problems on my Dell desktop, but it's running Win XP Pro
> SP-2, also with all updates. Don't know if that's any different behind the
> scenes.
> I'm stumped as to the cause, and thus the fix. Any thoughts or ideas on a
> fix are greatly appreciated.