Internet Explorer 8.0 has been guilty for a lot of the slowdowns, which are wisespread among Windows XP and Windows Vista users... You might try uninstalling it, then booting with Internet Explorer 6.11 or 7.0 for a while... do an online search for the variety of problems in IE8 that cause slow downs.
I would remove Spybot. It really does nothing useful, and has some programs that slow down windows a lot... It is merely a Cookies remover, and of course all the cookies come back anyway... at least the safe ones do. Instead, I would use Windows Defender, MalwareBytes, and SuperAntiSpyware, and see what infestations they find and remove. RB ----- This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. ... .... ..... ...... ....... Oscar Wilde On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:43 PM, John Toliver <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
