jimwillsher

Red herring.... Windows was telling me in a polite, but completely useless manner, that one of my little-used IDE drives was on the way out. I have 3 SCSIs and one IDE, which I use for temporary ISO images etc. Anyway, the IDE disk has breathed its last. Unplug the disk and - bingo - explorer is working again. Jim

False alarm. Problem still there. Aaaaarrrgrgggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you, and well done! That is exactly what I needed - problem resolved. Thanks again, Jim

I have a P3 PC (700Mhz) PC with 768Mb SDRAM and plenty of SCSI160 disk. I have a clean install of Windows XP Pro with SP1. I have this on two separate hard drives, i.e. two completely independent copies of XP. Very very frequently, if I use the windows key and E to launch explorer, the shell list is displayed but My Computer is not expanded. No amount of effort will expand this, and I can never see my drives. Task Manager shows "My Computer" as Not Responding. All I can do is end the My Computer task, or alternatively end the Explorer process. If I do a Start, Run then type "Explorer C:\" it works okay. I can recreate this on both partitions. This never used to happen with XP Pro. It is only since I installed XP Pro with SP1. Has anyone seen this before, or does anypne have any suggestions? I have already done the "REGSVR32 /u zipfldr.dll" (and CAB) to prevents scanning of ZIP files. This is driving me insane! Many thanks. Jim

Does anybody have any suggestions for sucking the maximum performance out of my discs? I have the following config : PIII 700 768Mb SDRAM Adaptec 29160 card with 2xQuantum Atlas 10K 9Gb 1xQuantum Atlas 10K II 9Gb XP Pro is installed to C:, ad my page file is split across D: and E: However, is there anything more I can do to boost the throughput - volumes, stripe sets, anything? Thanks, Jim