Killed Vista?

andyp · 26 Feb 2008 at 13:39

Long story short - I ended up accidentally placing exactly 7,715 small .rar files on my desktop. Explorer.exe stopped responding so I killed the process, logged off and booted into safe mode. Deleted all the .rar files and then tried booting normally - all I get is a light blue desktop background, no taskbar and looking at task manager gives me explorer.exe using 50% cpu. Killing and restarting explorer makes no difference except to get my taskbar back, which then hangs as soon as I try to do anything with it.

Me and my girlfriend share this PC, her logon works fine.

Sm1ffy · 26 Feb 2008 at 13:51

The only thing I can think of trying would be to login as you other half, browse c:\users\<your user name> \desktop and have a gander in there. Also it may be worth looking at your desktop.ini file. If all that still fails I guess the easiest option is to just create yourself a new user account. Once you've done that copy across all your my documents, favourites etc from the old account to the new account. It might be a good idea if you take the latter approach to not copy across the dectop directory from the old user to the new one.

Matt

andyp · 26 Feb 2008 at 14:58

Thanks for the reply Matt.

As it turns out, all I had to do was leave myself logged in for an hour or so with explorer.exe doing whatever it was doing. Came back to the PC and everything is fine

Sm1ffy · 26 Feb 2008 at 17:08

thats vista for you. It really should state on the packaging "requires extreme patients".

Kyle009 · 26 Feb 2008 at 17:10

Sm1ffy said:
thats vista for you. It really should state on the packaging "requires extreme patients".

extreme patients being?

or did you mean patience?

bledd · 26 Feb 2008 at 18:05

Sm1ffy said:
thats vista for you. It really should state on the packaging "requires extreme patients".

only people who have had bmx accidents can use it

Sm1ffy · 26 Feb 2008 at 18:18

Kyle009 said:
extreme patients being?

or did you mean patience?

meh dont pick on dyslexic dwarfs, we're not big and we're not clever

Ok so I should have used spell checker but it would have helped meh

Final8y · 26 Feb 2008 at 20:55

Sm1ffy said:
thats vista for you. It really should state on the packaging "requires extreme patients".

Great so you have done the same thing in XP & everything was OK within seconds ?

Sm1ffy · 26 Feb 2008 at 21:12

well I never come across xp's explorer.exe taking and extrodinary to load itself after the system had crashed. In the 2 months ive been running vista as my main os ive had more problems with explorer.exe than I ever remember having with xp

Antar Bolaeisk · 26 Feb 2008 at 21:24

Probably because when you last had problems with XP it was when it first came out years ago.

If you don't mind me asking, what were you doing that you needed so many .rar files!?

Final8y · 27 Feb 2008 at 21:01

Sm1ffy said:
well I never come across xp's explorer.exe taking and extrodinary to load itself after the system had crashed. In the 2 months ive been running vista as my main os ive had more problems with explorer.exe than I ever remember having with xp

That is not even close to what the OP did.
As we are not talking about just a crash here, we are talking about having 7000+ RAR files on the desk top & most likely maxed out the system ram & vista hand to do allot of swap file to the harddrive at bootup.
But if you think the results should be no different from a standard BSOD then you have not got a clue of what your talking about.