windows explorer keeps 'flickering' !!!

[slinkeepie]

when i am browsing my files, often lately, i'll be in a folder, and the window will seem like it is in some sort of constant activity and it will flicker every other second. this interrupts whatever action i am performing. if i am renaming a file, it will deselect the file, for instance. today i noticed in the status bar, it reads 'searching for files...' each second that it flickers. this gets very frustrating, it doesnt do it all the time though. i have scanned for viruses, and used norton utilities to detect all windows problems, also have scanned with spybot and ad-aware, everything is clean...not sure what to try next

 

[montag451]

Anything show up in event viewer?

Mine does that sometimes when it is trying to concentrate on doing something i told/asked/suggested/hinted it do

 

[slinkeepie]

there is a whole bunch of errors from when i booted a couple hours ago, but not anything since.

those are:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: DCOM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 10005
Date: 4/30/2005
Time: 6:06:09 PM
Description:
DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " attempting to start the service ccPwdSvc with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{DBA28A20-5CE1-4E8D-AD35-418B62269E54}

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

[montag451]

Did you run decombobulator?

Go into services [admin tools/services] and set the dcom to start automatically

 

[slinkeepie]

dcom is set to start autommatically already, thanks though.

i would guess my flicker doesnt have to do with the dcom error, but what do i know

 

[montag451]

i wouldn't have thought so either - but one never knows.

Could you try turning off indexing for the drive

 

[montag451]

OH yes, and make sure that all the drives are running under DMA/UDMA [hardware devices/ide channels]

 

[slinkeepie]

i had checked the DMA, and they were ok there.

i turned indexing to disabled. (which was set to manual anyways)
it seemed to help but only after i rebooted. so im not sure thats what did the trick.
as i said, it doesnt always do this, so i hope its actually fixed and not just deceiving me for the moment.

if so, thank you much for the suggestion mate!

if not, i'll see you later

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: slinkeepie

i had checked the DMA, and they were ok there.

i turned indexing to disabled. (which was set to manual anyways)
it seemed to help but only after i rebooted. so im not sure thats what did the trick.
as i said, it doesnt always do this, so i hope its actually fixed and not just deceiving me for the moment.

if so, thank you much for the suggestion mate!

if not, i'll see you later

If it comes back, try booting in safe mode - tell us if it happens then.