A problem with Explorer reseting XP

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Originally posted by maxinminn


Ok, how do I turn them back on? The main question here is: I'm pretty sure it's explorer.exe or one of it's components because using My Computer (which I hate ) has produced a crash-free period of 45+ hours. I could dink around for a long time using trial & error. Would I be better off just reinstalling XP? Would this overlay the bad components?

Thanks,
Max

Reinstalling XP would be a nice "quick" solution to the problem indeed, but it's abit harsh don't ya think?

I would not recommend a format over something that i concider to be so small and not worthy of the hussle of a format , there's a fair chance, that what ever is causing the trouble this time, will pop up it's ugly head in the next instllation of Windows and then we are back to square one, and alot of time has been wasted for nothing.

I think before we take any drastic action, we should actually look at what's to blame here, and is it really worth all the trouble?

You just said that you have had your computer running 45+ hours straight without a single crash, hmmm, then maybe this problem was just a one off?

If not, and it is starting to get to you, then we should first find out if what i've been saying all this time is at least slightly on the right lines.

Do forgive me if my instructions are alittle off here, i'm not running Windows XP at the moment, and recalling everything from memory

Right click "My Computer" on the desktop to go into "System Properties".

Go to the last tab on the "First" line, and select the "3rd" option down by clicking the diolog box button.

You should see boxes and options which you can select to let you choose how you want Windows to inform you and how to handle crashing programs.

Make sure that an option along these lines is selected:

"Don't send crash information to Microsoft, but do inform me of critical errors"

If a box is already selected that would allow you to be informed of crashes, then i'm abit stomped

But if error handling was turned off, then the next course of action would to be, sit and wait for another crash to occur and see exactly what's going on with your computer.