Hi all,
I have two folders, not system folders on my Win XP pro machine. Every time I open the folder windows explorer crashes. Its very annoying because it will not let me access the files. In effect windows explorer crashes, and restarts. The whole machine does not re-start, just explorer. I hvae no known viruses because I do a scan every other day with Panda Titanium. Any thoughts on how I can cure this?
Cheers
Dan
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A chkdsk /f /r /x may help. Run that in a command prompt, and if this is the drive where your OS is on or something else that is open, the PC will run chkdsk very thoroughly on the next reboot (it'll ask you if it shall schedule to run for the next reboot). Be aware that this can take e very long time, depending on the size and amount of data on your disk. And don't be surprised if you see errors during the process.
Option 1
what you can do is go to the command prompt and
copy all contents to some other drive/folder
like this
c:>copy <troubled_folder_path>\*.*
Option 2
go to the command prompt
you can delete the files called thumbs.db, desktop.ini and folder.htt(this file may not exist) like this
c:>cd <troubled_folder_path>
c:troubled_folder_path>att
c:troubled_folder_path>att
c:troubled_folder_path>att
c:troubled_folder_path>del
c:troubled_folder_path>del
c:troubled_folder_path>del
now go to explorer and open <troubled_folder>
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by: MrBillisMePosted on 2005-06-04 at 20:22:23ID: 14147500
One way to clear them would be to set the hard drive as slave on another machine and then view and clear them. I know you said no virus but it seems very suspicious, I've never seen this on any machine i've worked on.