Win2k explorer crash problem (WTF?)

Chriz

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Oct 9, 1999
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Ok, I just did a totally clean install of Win 2K pro. I installed all the updates including IE5.01 SP1, visual studio 6 sp4, and office 2000 SR-1a. Having problems though. After running it a while....i'll have a explorer window open (from my computer) and it won't close...stops responding. I try killing it with task manager...that doesn't work...now i can't even access my desktop. Have to reboot. This happens a lot.

Winzip 8.0 also stops responding and i can't kill it either. Sometimes when i hit "extract" where it should go to the thing where you select the folder to extract files to, instead it just stops responding. What is going on here?

Could it be some of the programs i installed? I haven't installed many...but i installed the most recent versions of EZ cd creator 4, Direct CD with it, real player, real jukebox, ftp voyager, AIM, ICQ, Zone alarm, intellitype pro 1.1 (for keyboard), intellimouse 3.1a software, visual studio 6, office 2000, napster, gnutella, winzip self extractor (the new beta version), spinner plus, hypersnap, acrobat, and that's about it :)

Anyone else having these same problems with explorer or winzip 8 with win2k?
 

DAM

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im using winzip 8 on my win2k with no problems and have had my puter running for a couple of weeks, so it might not be that, have you checked what other programs are running on the background? perhaps its a software bug, or perhaps even a hardware bug. try to repair the wind2k installation by clicking F8 on startup and see if that helps. all i can tell you, is that its all a trail and error process.



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