Windows Explorer hanging with SP1

[jimwillsher]

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

[Aaron]

This is what u need, a pre-SP2 patch:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...B;en-us;q329692

[jimwillsher]

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

Thanks again,

Jim

[jimwillsher]

False alarm. Problem still there.

Aaaaarrrgrgggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

[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