Windows 2000 Problem?

[Ynog]

Not sure if I have a problem here?

So I will throw out the error. Not sure if its nothing, a virus, or just need to reinstall.

Anyhow, when I open certain folders. The explorer window will hang. sometimes it
comes back and sometimes it crashes, explorer restarts. Now it seems to happen in folders with
large files, mainly documents, presentations, audio, and video stuff.

Now i have no idea why it is doing this. I have scaned my computer with Norton, latest virus updates,
Nothing. Its a western digital hard drive and it just passed the Western Digital diagnostic tests. I had another
hard drive go and figured I ought to test that one while I was at it. Anyway the drive is happy. I am defragging the
drive, which appeared to be pretty fragmented. However I had to download a third party defragger because the
Windows 2000 one, refused to do anything. Would just sit at 0% forever. Now I have 512 MB Ram. And its not
using it all. I have over 10GB free on my drive.

Now I am not sure if anyone has an idea what could be wrong. I can always reinstall 2000, but thats a pain in the butt.
And if I can avoid it I would prefer it.

 

[LiLithTecH]

What ERROR(s) are listed in the EVENT LOG?

 

[Ynog]

I cannot remember off the top of my head.
However the Error was in line with this.

Winlogon
The shell stopped unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted.

However there is also a DCOM error as well.
I definately don't have that one off the top of my head.

Not sure which is the problem. Both seem to be there around the time.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Have you run a TROJAN Detector lately?
Norton misses ALOT of Trojan viruses.

Also, if you can, POST the EVENT ID and SOURCE listed in the EVENT LOG.

 

[Ynog]

Unfortunately I am at work at the present time.
And cannot access my computer. However any good trojan detectors?

I can post later the Event ID and Source.

 

[Ynog]

By the way, used a trojan scanner, didn't find anything.

This is the DCOM error this happens pretty often. So I don't think its that.
The server {22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.
Source DCOM error is EventID 10010

The other is
Winlogon
1002

 

[capybara]

if you dont need DCOM, disable it in the registry. i did. note: rpc uses dcom so if your using
anything that uses rpc (im not) dont disable dcom. if your not comfortable with regedit,
grc.com has a dcom disabler called something like dcom-bobulator.