I have had my new Thinkpad T43 for about a month now. First thing I did was wipe the drive and fresh installed it with my own personal config. Works for the most part the way I want it to however occaisionally when I click on the start menu to open My computer nothing happens. Same for My documents, in fact all the "My*" folders. I go to process explorer and it will show one instance of explorer.exe running and then when I click on one of the start menu shortcuts, I see another instance of explorer start then exit, with no user notice other than that. Something else strange is that when I shut down my system, I always get a program that has stopped responding which holds up shutdown. Until I have time to troubleshoot it I have been doing "shutdown -f -r -t 0" at the run box. I'm confident it's not a virus or trojan (Avast is updated) and Spybot is quiet unless I bother it.
I discovered if I type explorer at the run box it works but like I said none of the icons work. they start and then exit. Weird but... So the way I have been fixing it has been opening process explorer and killing all instances of explorer.exe which of course takes down the desktop environment all together and then starting a new instance of explorer from the run command. This works until the next time. It's getting to be a pain. Any ideas would be appreciated. -- I've discovered the key to success is to never give up. You either learn the right way, or you run out of ways to do it wrong. A win/win situation! _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
