I am having a problem with Windows Explorer locking up.  If I open My
Computer, my computer works fine.  If I open Windows Explorer, explorer locks
up, and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del and End Task explorer.  I have ran the
Microsoft Anti-Spyware, and it found nothing.  Any ideas on where do to start
looking?

Get a proper spyware program & not Microsoft Spyware Beta. Uninstall the
Microsoft one straight away.

Here's the best spyware program in my opinion & its totally FREE:

http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html

After install, back up your registry, download all the updates for it;
engines, def updates...

As far as Windows explorer. It sounds more like an Internet Explorer DLL
isn't registered correctly

Do you have any mapped network drives? If so, windows explorer can take a
while to scan them.

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Set aside your bias and do a little research and you'll find that your
advice about a "proper" spyware program is totally wrong and that by giving
such advice you're actually doing a disservice to people.

Start here:
http://windowssecrets.com/050127/#story1


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Colon-

I couldn't agree more with you, however I must say that I tried a copy of
Counterspy which was GIANT but released by Sunbelt.  While I never tried any
other version from the screenshots I saw Sunbelts was identical except for
the name (same engine and same interface - they licensed it I think).  What I
found was a program that was basically cheating and returning over 50% false
positives.  To be fair the CEO of Sunbelt reccomended trying a newer version
of the defs which did resolve the false positive issue, however I do not
believe those initial false positives were unintentional (one example of the
flase positives was it recognized the flash plug-in as something called
Search Squire).  I trust Microsoft enough to know that practice won't
continue now that they are involved but since the review you posted was
pre-MS  I wonder if the results were at all skewed by the fact that the defs
were written by cheaters (I dont know what defs were used so maybe they were
clean - they seem to alternate clean, dirty, clean, dirty, etc).  Also
possibly it was just Sunbelt's defs that cheat, which oddly enough was
exactly what I expected to see from them.

Anyway this wasn't said in disagreement but more just throwing it out there
for people to consider if they want.

Thanks,

Nick

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Simple question - user profiles
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