techguy21801 Posted February 2, 2003 Posted February 2, 2003 for some reason whenever i try to use the search feature expolere.exe immediately crashes. and i don't know why. any ideas?i'm running win2000 w/ sp3
gamehead200 Posted February 3, 2003 Posted February 3, 2003 Bugs? Viruses? Do you have an anti-virus program? Did you ever do a system restore?
techguy21801 Posted February 3, 2003 Author Posted February 3, 2003 norton antivirus 2003, and i've done a one system restore if that's what you would call it. but it still did this before that, i very much doubt a virus,
MSNwar Posted February 3, 2003 Posted February 3, 2003 Normally that means there are two or more programs trying to access explorer.exe at the same time and Win2000 shuts down explorer.exe when that happens. Or a viri has attached itself to explorer.exe But if you ran Norton and there was no viri then thats probally not the reason. I forgot the size of explorer.exe for Win2000 but if you right-click it and read the properties for the size you can then do a google search and do a compare.
techguy21801 Posted February 3, 2003 Author Posted February 3, 2003 thanks i will look into that.. hope your feeling better:)
MSNwar Posted February 3, 2003 Posted February 3, 2003 thanks i will look into that.. hope your feeling better:)Hope it gets fixed but if not let us know. Thanks for the comment.
techguy21801 Posted February 4, 2003 Author Posted February 4, 2003 well i have determined that it only occurs when i have IE open. when i do not have it open it searches fine.....it's strange.
zipp51 Posted February 4, 2003 Posted February 4, 2003 Have you tried to repair IE?Go into add/remove programs and proceed as if you are uninstalling IE,it should then ask if you want to repair or uninstall.
techguy21801 Posted February 4, 2003 Author Posted February 4, 2003 yeah i have repaired it and then also restored it , and reinstalled.
techguy21801 Posted February 4, 2003 Author Posted February 4, 2003 i'm starting to think that it may be a problem when i upgraded, because even though i wanted to do a fresh install of win2k it was not an option at the time.
techguy21801 Posted February 6, 2003 Author Posted February 6, 2003 well i did a repair on it and i also put the service pack on IE and i was able to search so at least i could do that.
gamehead200 Posted February 6, 2003 Posted February 6, 2003 What version of IE do you have? 5, 5.5, or 6? If you have 5 or 5.5, upgrade to 6...If that doesn't solve your problem, reinstall Win 2000...Or wait until the next service pack...
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