"Libraries" (explorer.exe) opens automatically on logon

We recently updated our Terminal Servers from Server 2008 to Server 2008 R2. Now, when our users log on, the "Libraries" folder opens automatically, and users have to close it manually. I'm getting a lot of complaints, is there a way to stop this
from happening? I've searched on Google but haven't been able to find an answer.
All help is greatly appreciated!

The answer is as follows
(1) Open Regedit,
(2) Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Winlogon,
(3) Find the USERINIT value. it will likely have "C:\Windows\system32\userinit.exe, C:\Windows\system32\Kuserinit.exe"
(4) remove the ", C:\Windows\system32\Kuserinit," (This is the second value, don't forget to remove the commas as well)
(5) Log out and then Log back in to verify
(6) Buy me lunch (optional)

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Internet explorer will open Automatically

Hi,
One of my user have windows vista Home basic- SP2. Internet explorer will open Automatically at 10:00 AM. i have block third party cookies and clear the Add-on's still it same issue. can you help me how to fix this issue.

Hi,
Start>Windows Update
review their Windows Update settings....
change to automatically install updates. Usually updates are installed once a month, but they may have scheduled WU to check daily...
or
Start>Task Scheduler... check for any scheduled tasks that run at that time.
a hint may be obtained by looking at what web address that IE is trying to open.
When asking internet related questions its helpful if you include the full address of any websites that you are having issues with.
Some web browser addons place entries in the Windows Startup list and are not disabled when you disable them from an IE Reset....
Home Versions of Windows do not have the MSConfig utility which you would use to disable windows startup items. You will have to manually look for rogue entries in the Registry....HKCU\Software\Microsoft\windows\current version
To test if there is a malware entry in the windows startup list...reboot the machine into Safe Mode with networking and leave it running overnight. If IE is running when you come in in the morning, then you know there is a malware item in the startup list...
Commonly the GoogleToolbarUpdater.exe may be running.... you may be able to see if its active in the Tasks Manager's Processes tab.
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Lenovo T61 (Product 6458-W2R): explorer.exe hangs after logon - WinXP SP2

+++ english below +++
[german/deutsch]
Wir setzen in unserem Unternehmen mehrere ThinkPad T61 ein. Bei einigen dieser ThinkPad T61 (und nur beim ThinkPad T61!) haben wir inzwischen ein seltsames Phänomen, welches im Laufe der letzten 1-2 Monate auftrat und noch auftritt. Dieses Phänomen trat nicht gleichzeitig auf, sondern nacheinander. Und es tritt willkürlich auf. Der jüngste Fall ist gerade 1 Tag alt. Inzwischen sind 6 ThinkPad T61 davon betroffen.
Alle ThinkPad T61 sind Mitglieder einer Domäne (Windows Server 2003) und durchlaufen ein Loginscript. Das Loginscript beinhaltet Batchbefehle, Kix32 (für das Mappen von Netzwerklaufwerken und Druckern) und Teile der Matrix42 Empirum Management Software (für Softwaredistribution und Inventarisierung). Es werden Gruppenrichtlinien angewendet. Es werden via Matrix42 Empirum automatisch die neuen Patches und Updates seitens Microsoft auf alle Computer verteilt. Alle Computer erhalten eine unbeaufsichtigte/standardisierte Installation via Matrix42 Empirum Management Software (ähnlich einem Image und der unbeaufsichtigten Windows-Installation). Auf allen Rechnern ist Windows XP mit Service Pack 2 installiert. Spezielle Software ist in der Regel nicht drauf, nur Microsoft Office 2003, der aktuelle Acrobat Reader sowie die aktuellen Standardplayer: Windows Media Player, Quicktime Player, RealPlayer, VLC media player. Ggf. noch Nero 7 Standard bzw. Platinum (Spezielle Version). Alle IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad verwenden zusätzlich die IBM/Lenovo-Utilities „ThinkVantage“. Das Phänomen tritt unabhängig davon auf, ob das ThinkPad T61 in einer Dockingstation betrieben wird oder nicht. Es ist auf jedem Computer in der Windows Registrierung eingestellt, dass der Desktop erst geladen wird, wenn das Loginscript durchgelaufen ist.
Nun zur genauen Fehlerbeschreibung:
Manchmal kann es bei einem Kaltstart vorkommen, dass nach der Anmeldung und nach dem Loginscript –während der komplette Desktop und die Startleiste bereits sichtbar sind und noch einige Dienste geladen werden– sich die explorer.exe aufhängt. Die Startleiste lässt sich nicht bedienen. Ebenfalls lassen sich dann auch auf dem Desktop keine Symbole doppelklicken.
Wir setzen auch andere Computer ein, wo dieses Phänomen nicht auftritt, u.a.:
- HP-Computer (Desktops, Evo SFF Series)
- Fujitsu-Siemens-Computer (Desktops, ESPRIMO E Series)
- IBM ThinkPad T20/21
- IBM ThinkPad T40/T41/T42
- IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T60
Das Problem tritt nur auf den noch relativ neuen ThinkPad T61 auf.
Wir haben bereits einen ziemlich ähnlichen Fall unter…
http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=694888&page=1
http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=694888&page=2
http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/XP/Q_22718276.html …gefunden.
[english]
Unfortunately, I’m not fluent in the english language.
We use a few ThinkPad T61’s in our company. Meanwhile, at some ThinkPad T61’s (only ThinkPad T61!) we have a strange problem. This problem appears since the last 1-2 months and it still does exist. This problem does not appear at the same time, it does appear successive. And it appears random. The last case is 1 day old. Meanwhile, 6 ThinkPad T61 are concerned.
All ThinkPad T61 are members of a domain (Windows Server 2003) and do execute a logon script. The logon script contains Batch commands, Kix32 (for mapping network drives and printers) and parts of the Matrix42 Empirum Management software (for software distribution and inventory scan). Group policies will apply. Patches and updates will install on every computer via Matrix42 Empirum automatically. All computers get a default/unattended installation via Matrix42 Empirum Management software (everywhere between an image and an unattended Windows installation). All computers have installed Windows XP with Service Pack 2. As a rule, special software isn’t installed, only Microsoft Office 2003, the actual Acrobat Reader and the actual default players: Windows Media Player, Quicktime Player, RealPlayer, VLC media player. Sometimes, there is installed the Nero 7 Standard or rather Platinum (Special Edition) yet. All IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad use IBM/Lenovo-Utilities „ThinkVantage“ additionally. The problem exists if the ThinkPad T61 is connected to a docking station and also if the ThinkPad T61 is disconnected from a docking station. On every computer exists a registry key which arranges it that the desktop only will be loaded after the logon script did run.
Now the detailed error description:
Sometimes the explorer.exe hangs after the cold start. i.e.: The desktop (with icons and task bar) appears complete. But the computer hangs if you try to click on the task bar or double click on any icons. The computer will only run if we kill the process ‘explorer.exe’ and if we restart the explorer.exe.
We use also other computers with the same installation and the same group policies where the problem does not exist, for example:
- HP-Computer (Desktops, Evo SFF Series)
- Fujitsu-Siemens-Computer (Desktops, ESPRIMO E Series)
- IBM ThinkPad T20/21
- IBM ThinkPad T40/T41/T42
- IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T60
Only the new ThinkPad T61’s have this problem.
We have found a similar case at…
http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=694888&page=1
http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=694888&page=2
http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/XP/Q_22718276.html
Vielen Dank / Many thanks!

I would run System Update and make sure I had all the updates available.
Another thing to try is:
1. Right-click on My Computer and click Properties
2. Click on the Advanced tab
3. Click on Settings under Performance
4. Click on Data Execution Prevention
5. Click on Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select, then check Windows Explorer
We had to do that to some machines here after a push from corporate of the new ScriptLogic.This solved the problem.
ThinkPad T61 15 Widescreen with nVidia Quadro graphics 6459CTO
Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows XP Pro

Windows 8.1 explorer.exe crashes EVERY time I open a window

I upgraded from win8 home yesterday and notices I was getting errors when using windows to copy files from my laptop to computer over my wifi.
Today, I was working fine and started gettingMicrosoft Visual C++ Runtime Library "Runtime Error" and explorer restarted, I rebooted and then on all accounts I logged into, I got no error messages - just explorer restarting. I was unable
to open any folders.
The event viewer states:
Faulting application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 6.3.9600.16441, time stamp: 0x5265dec8
Faulting module name: verifier.dll, version: 6.3.9600.16384, time stamp: 0x5215f8f7
Exception code: 0x80000003
Fault offset: 0x000000000000abd4
Faulting process ID: 0x16c4
Faulting application start time: 0x01cf1ad3991556c6
Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\verifier.dll
Report ID: ecbc0d64-86c6-11e3-8089-4c72b9810b8d
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Explorer has however started running properly since I ran C:\ from the run prompt. Any folders I click on seem ok and now I can open explorer normally.
Please help

Hello,
Please download this
ZIP file and extract it. Once extracted, double-click the REG file to import it into the registry. Once done, this will enable creation of crash dumps when Explorer crashes. So, the next time this happens. you should fine a DMP file on your desktop. Compress
and attach the file here. Having the file will help us identifying the cause of the issue.

Explorer.exe (?) crashing without warning, closing all open programs

Hello! I recently got a windows 8.1 computer and have been using it for only a week, but I've been having issues with what I can only assume is explorer.exe.
The taskbar will randomly completely disappear, leaving only a blue empty space at the bottom of the screen (possibly getting rid of my desktop background as well), close every program I have open without warning aside from the one I'm using at the time
(generally google chrome) and doesn't seem to restart itself on its own. I have to ctrl+alt+del to get to the task manager to manually start explorer.exe again, which works without an issue aside from possible lost unsaved progress from the closed
programs. I don't get any pop up saying windows has encountered any errors, it just does it for maybe no reason.
I can't think of why it would be doing this because again, I've only been using it for a week. It doesn't happen often, it's done it maybe two or three times but it seems it might not be stopping any time soon. I checked the reliability monitor and
it doesn't seem to recognise this issue as anything, nothing shows up for this. Any help to resolve this would be much appreciated, or even just finding out why it's doing it. Thank you!

Please provide us with your Event Viewer administrative logs by following these steps:
Click Start Menu
Type eventvwr into Search programs and files (do not hit enter)
Right click eventvwr.exe and click Run as administrator
Expand Custom Views
Click Administrative Events
Right click Administrative Events
Save all Events in Custom View As...
Save them in a folder where you will remember which folder and save as Errors.evtx
Go to where you saved Errors.evtx
Right click Errors.evtx -> send to -> compressed (zipped) folder
Upload the .zip file to Onedrive or a file sharing service and put a link to it in your next post
If you have updated to win 8.1 and you get the error message "the system cannot find the file specified" it is a known problem.
The work around is to edit the registry. If you are not comfortable doing this DONT. If you are, backup the key before you do
Press Win+"R" and input regedit
Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WINEVT\Channels. Delete "Microsoft-Windows-DxpTaskRingtone/Analytic"
Wanikiya and Dyami--Team Zigzag

Explorer.exe crashing when opening directory with FLV files in them

Hi,
In the past few days for no reason at all, every time I open
a folder containing FLV files, I get an error with Explorer.exe
crashing. I don't even touch a file, just opening the folder
containing them causes it.
Has anyone else experienced this issue. It getting a bit
annoying now.
All of my FLV files are created with Premier Pro CS3, and
until recently I haven't seen any issues.
Even if I use Remote Desktop into my Windows 2003 Web Server
to view the folder on Flash Media Server, my local computer drops
Explorer.exe.
cheers

it's probably because you have .flv registered as a video
file, and the explorer tries to create a video-thumbnail. (have you
installed any funky FLV video players/ or maybe a codec pack?)
If you can, try navigate to the folder in "details" view
mode..that should be fine, because details view, does not show
thumbnails.
Then try to click on one of the FLV files.. you'll see the
preview pane..and eplorer will crash.
i'm not sure how to fix this, but somehow, you should remove
.flv from the filetypes that windows conciders a video file.

Powershell, Open Explorer.exe at a specified window location and specified size

Is it possible for powershell to open explorer.exe at a specified location (i.e. top 0 left 0) and a specified size (i.e height 400, width 600)? There are a number of options for IE but (that I can see or work out none of there transpose into the File
Explorer (also none of the properties (membertype) fit with location or sizing ).

This is not a script question but is a question about how to use Windows programs.
Search for "Explorer command line"
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Explorer.exe hangs on resolution changes

I seem to have to have a very persistant, very reproducable and very annoying problem with explorer.exe just completely "hanging" frequently. This started happening near the end of November, about a month after I used Windows 7 (professional x64) with no problems. To make a long story short, it happens nearly any time my display changes (resolution or anything else).
Here's a more detailed description:
Before late November, everything worked perfectly. I don't recall what could have caused the change. I uninstalled anything I installed during or after November. I do not have anything visible on my desktop. However, any time the resolution changes, explorer.exe hangs using 50% of my cpu, or 100% of one core. Clicking on the taskbar or desktop lets me know that "Explorer.exe has stopped responding", allowing me to restart it, which I occasionally also choose to do via Process Explorer. At first, I only noticed during or after playing games, but now I have tested this thoroughly and determined that it is in fact most likely a display problem, concluded from the following pretty exhaustive list:
Unplugging my external monitor causes explorer.exe to hang.
Plugging in my external monitor also does.
Changing resolutions on either monitor, to any resolution, causes explorer.exe to hang.
Changing resolutions on the internal monitor while the external monitor is unplugged also causes a hang.
Uninstalling the ATI display drivers causes a hang.
Changing resolutions with the default Windows display drivers between 800x600 and 1024x768 (the only two options) causes a hang. (Uninstalled and followed with Driver Sweeper so no trace of the ATI display drivers are available and the display is running purely on Windows defaults.)
Installing updated ATI drivers causes a hang directly after the resolution is changed automatically.
Unchecking all options in the "Perfermance Options" causes explorer.exe to hang.
Unchecking all options but leaving visual styles on does not result in a hang (if it was on to start with).
Turning off visual styles causes the display to blink briefly before displaying the "Please wait" box and, when it is finished and the desktop is displayed again, explorer.exe has been hanging approximately since the display blink.
Running games that cause the resolution to change usually cause explorer.exe to hang, but not always. This is particularly odd. Opening the simple game Torchlight in full screen at 1280x800, does not pose a problem; however, Alt-Tabbing out of it causes the hang as well as closing it, which both revert the resolution to the desktop resolution (1920x1200). Running the game in a window is no problem. Running the game in full screen at 1920x1200 is also no problem, regardless of starting, using Alt-Tab or closing, even though the display blinks for a moment. Team Fortress 2 consistently causes explorer to hang when launching (hanging TF2 as well, until explorer has been killed). All goes well while TF2 is running, even with explorer restarted. When TF2 is closed, explorer hangs again. Thus, it always causes explorer to hang, whether opening or closing. In windowed mode, it causes no problems. I can give examples of a number of more games if it helps pinpoint the problem.
The event viewer shows no errors or warnings after a hang (except for the standard ones that are generated if the "Explorer.exe has stopped responding" dialog shows up by clicking on the taskbar or desktop. If it is killed manually before showing the dialog, nothing shows up.) It does log some information specific to ATI functions in the ACEEventLogSource which seem to be specific to an explorer freeze. No information was generated when Torchlight changed resolutions without a resulting hang but the following was generated upon closing, with an explorer hang:
0000000090: 2010-01-12 00:13:47:423 FAILED:ADL_Display_SLSGrid_Caps and return value is: -1
Error Called by: ATI.ACE.CLI.Caste.Graphics.Runtime.RT_GraphicsAdapter_N::CheckSLSSupported processID:03384 threadID:( ) domainName:(CCC.exe ) assemblyName:(CLI.Caste.Graphics.Runtime, Version=2.0.3615.38596, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)
0000000091: 2010-01-12 00:13:48:428 FAILED:ADL_Display_SLSGrid_Caps and return value is: -1
Error Called by: ATI.ACE.CLI.Caste.Graphics.Runtime.RT_GraphicsAdapter_N::CheckSLSSupported processID:03384 threadID:( ) domainName:(CCC.exe ) assemblyName:(CLI.Caste.Graphics.Runtime, Version=2.0.3615.38596, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)
0000000092: 2010-01-12 00:13:49:775 FAILED:ADL_Display_DisplayMapConfig_PossibleAddAndRemove is: -8
Error Called by: ATI.ACE.CLI.Caste.Graphics.Runtime.RT_GraphicsCaste_N::GetAddOneRemoveOneDisplayIDList processID:03384 threadID:( ) domainName:(CCC.exe ) assemblyName:(CLI.Caste.Graphics.Runtime, Version=2.0.3615.38596, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)
0000000093: 2010-01-12 00:13:49:967 FAILED:ADL_Display_SLSGrid_Caps and return value is: -1
Error Called by: ATI.ACE.CLI.Caste.Graphics.Runtime.RT_GraphicsAdapter_N::CheckSLSSupported processID:03384 threadID:( ) domainName:(CCC.exe ) assemblyName:(CLI.Caste.Graphics.Runtime, Version=2.0.3615.38596, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)
0000000094: 2010-01-12 00:13:49:970 FAILED:ADL_Display_SLSGrid_Caps and return value is: -1
Error Called by: ATI.ACE.CLI.Caste.Graphics.Runtime.RT_GraphicsAdapter_N::CheckSLSSupported processID:03384 threadID:( ) domainName:(CCC.exe ) assemblyName:(CLI.Caste.Graphics.Runtime, Version=2.0.3615.38596, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)
0000000095: 2010-01-12 00:13:50:496 _IDEMDeviceDFP2Settings_0812.GetDFP2ITCFlag failed with status 2
Error Called by: ATI.ACE.CLI.Aspect.DeviceDFP.Graphics.Runtime.RT_DeviceDFP::PrivateRefresh processID:03384 threadID:( ) domainName:(CCC.exe ) assemblyName:(CLI.Aspect.DeviceDFP.Graphics.Runtime, Version=2.0.3615.38640, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)
0000000096: 2010-01-12 00:13:50:499 FAILED: ADL.ADL.ADL_DFP_AllowOnlyCETimings_Get
Error Called by: ATI.ACE.CLI.Aspect.DeviceDFP.Graphics.Runtime.RT_DeviceDFP::PrivateRefresh processID:03384 threadID:( ) domainName:(CCC.exe ) assemblyName:(CLI.Aspect.DeviceDFP.Graphics.Runtime, Version=2.0.3615.38640, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)
0000000097: 2010-01-12 00:13:50:517 Unable to obtain Color Correction information, dem status: -2
Error Called by: ATI.ACE.CLI.Aspect.DeviceLCD.Graphics.Runtime.RT_DeviceLCD::Parse processID:03384 threadID:( ) domainName:(CCC.exe ) assemblyName:(CLI.Aspect.DeviceLCD.Graphics.Runtime, Version=2.0.3615.38647, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)
Disabling all non-Microsoft Shell extensions (with ShellExView x64) didn't help.
As of writing, I have the feeling it didn't happen in safe-mode but I would need to retest this to make sure.
A clean boot yields no improvement. Changing the resolution following a clean boot still results in a hang.
Using Process Explorer, I have also checked all non-Microsoft DLL's running in conjunction with Exlporer.exe and these were only db's (some related to BitTorrent), a Comodo antivirus DLL and a bunch of Broadcom Widcomm Bluetooth files. Thus, I uninstalled all of those including the bluetooth software and drivers, unfortunately, to no avail. Changing resolutions still crashes Explorer!
My system is as follows:
ASUS M51Va Notebook
Windows 7 Professional x64
ATI Radeon HD 3650
Catalyst Version 09.12
DirectX Version 11
Direct3D Version 8.14.10.0716
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.9232
Internal monitor Generic PnP Monitor at 1200x800 32bit 61Hz
External monitor Samsung SyncMaster 2433BW/2433GW, SyncMaster Magic at 1920x1200 32bit 59Hz connected by an HDMI to DVI-D cable
Anti-virus is Comodo
If any more information is needed I'll gladly provide it! This is truly a very aggrivating problem. Particularly when gaming or hooking up displays for presentations etc. I really can't think of any thing else that could be meddling with Explorer, causing it to crash. I would love to find the source of the problem, but I'm prepared to finally bite the bullet and reinstall Windows to get rid of this extremely annoying problem. Help would really be appreciated.
If I figure anything out, I'll post the results.

Hi Eric,
I would like to suggest you update the BIOS and the hardware drivers first.
If the issue persists, would you please send me more information for analyzing. For your convenience, I have created a workspace for you. You can upload the information files to the following link. (Please choose "Send Files to Microsoft")
Workspace URL: https://sftasia.one.microsoft.com/choosetransfer.aspx?key=c6554906-fc59-4afc-b248-15a77e6b766a
Password: dPm84CYEytpieE8
Note: Due to differences in text formatting with various email clients, the workspace link above may appear to be broken. Please be sure to include all text between '(' and ')' when typing or copying the workspace link into your browser. Meanwhile, please note that files uploaded for more than 72 hours will be deleted automatically. Please ensure to notify me timely after you have uploaded the files. Thank you for your understanding.
Collect the Windows Explorer dump files
========================
1. Click Start, type Notepad in the Search bar and press Enter.
2. Copy the following commands and then paste them into the open Notepad window.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\Explorer.exe]
"DumpFolder"=hex(2):43,00,3a,00,5c,00,4c,00,6f,00,63,00,61,00,6c,00,44,00,75,\
00,6d,00,70,00,73,00,00,00
3. After pasting the above commands, please click File on the menu and click Save.
4. Type in CollectDump.reg as the file name, select to save the file on the Desktop. Click Save.
5. Go to the Desktop, and double click CollectDump.reg. A dialog box will pop-up saying "Are you sure you want to add the information in fix.reg to the registry?". Click Yes to confirm.
Note: Administrative privileges are required to perform the above steps. Please click "Continue" when the User Account Control dialog-box appears.
6. Reboot the computer and send the dump files in C:\LocalDumps to me after reproducing the Windows Explorer issue.
Regards,
Arthur Li - MSFT

Explorer.exe uses too much CPU cycles (roughly 50%)... How can I fix this?

Hi everyone,
In the last two days I have noticed a serious loss in system performance. The first thing I do when I come accross a performance issue is to make sure that I don't have any scheduled automatic scans running in the background, such as my antivirus. If they aren't, I then open the task manager and check to see what process(es) is(are) causing the performance issue based on CPU usage. I discovered that explorer.exe is now regularly using approximately 50% of my CPU power AT ALL TIMES (with fluctuations ranging from as low as 35% to as high as 99%, but 45%-55% is the most common range).
Now I thought this might have been some sort of fluke, so I rebooted several times, and in all cases I find explorer.exe continues to use this hefty amount of CPU power. This persists even if I leave the system alone (running, but not being used) for 15 minutes or more.
This is causing major performance issues with trying to run any/all other applications on the system, and even worse performance issues if I try to use explorer for something such as directory navigation, file searching, or file access.
I recently made an update to Windows (about a day before this problem arose), so I thought that might be the cause of this, so I ran a system restore to the restore point made before the install. That didn't fix the problem. Since the problem has only started in the last two days, I restored to a point three days ago. That didn't fix it either. I have since tried to restore to points 5 and 7 days old, and neither of those worked to fix this problem either.
I can use the task manager to end-task explorer.exe, and then restart it using "new task" from the file menu, and this seems to correct the problem. After doing such a "restart" of explorer.exe, the process no longer uses 50% of my CPU power, and instead uses only 0%-20% depending on what I'm doing. This, however, is not a viable long-term solution for a couple of reasons: 1) it screws up my tray icons, causing many to disappear even though their parent programs/processes are still running, and causing others to appear even though they shouldn't be there; and 2) subsequent instances of explorer.exe such as for directory navigation still have some performance problems and are prone to crashes.
I need to know how to repair or replace explorer.exe without having to format my hard drive and re-install (either from scratch or using a system recovery disc). I can try using some sort of shell replacement such as Aston, Emerge, or GeoShell, but I shouldn't have to do that.
It may be that one of my other startup applications is causing some sort of compatibility issue, but that seems unlikely since I haven't made any changes to the system, nor installed any new software other than standard windows updates.
I need help, advice, suggestions, etc., or really anything at all that I can try that might fix this problem. In the meantime, I am going to boot into safe mode to see if explorer.exe has problems even then (which would solidly indicate a corruption of explorer.exe rather than a compatibility issue or anything else).
Please help if you can. For reference, I am using an HP Pavilion dv9700 CTO Entertainment Notebook PC, running Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit with Service Pack 1. I have an Intel Core2 Duo T9300 2.5GHz CPU and 3GB of RAM. My explorer.exe file gives the following information from the Details tab of its Properties window: file version is 6.0.6001.18000; product version is 6.0.6000.16386; file size is 2.79MB; and modification date is 1/20/2008 at 6:24pm. As far as I know, that is all correct information and does not indicate that the program file has been replaced by any sort of malicious software. I also ran a complete scan with AVG Antivirus and found no viruses or other malicious software anywhere on the system (unless you count tracking cookies).
Thank you in advance for any help

Edward Lin wrote:
I have exactly the same problem!!! And I concluded that the “AUTO CONNECT” function is the main reason of causing the CPU usage. If I uncheck the “AUTO CONNECT” from the saved wi-fi connection, then the CPU would remain claim.
But.. Still, it’s very annoying. So I formatted the hard drive and restore to the original factory condition. Initially, it was working ok. But after WINDOW UPDATES, the same problem happens again!!!!!! May this be the bug from Microsoft??
Any thought?? Any Fix? Please help!!!!
Yes, I did notice that the problem started after I did a Windows Update. I can't remember which update it was, but the strange thing about it was that I couldn't fix the problem by restoring the system to a restore point that was made BEFORE the update. Since I hadn't made any other changes to the system between when it worked and when it stopped working, I can only assume that the update caused the problem, and as such I believe it IS Microsoft's fault.
As to the Auto-Connect feature, I hadn't even thought of that, but since I use my internet ALL THE TIME, it would be really annoying to have to manually connect every boot up.
Which brings me back to the workaround. If you have Auto-Connect enabled, and you disable WLAN AutoConfig and set it to Manual in your Services interface, then reboot the system, does it solve the CPU issues? If the answer is yes, then you can do what I'm doing:
1. Go to Start, then in the search box type "task" and you should see the Task Scheduler come up as an option.
2. Open the Task Scheduler and click on "Create Task..." (by default this should be on the right-hand side of the window in the Actions pane).
3. In the General tab, give the task a name and (optionally) a description, and put a check mark in the box at the lower left that says "Run with highest privileges".
4. In the Triggers tab, add a trigger. In the new window, choose "At log on" from the dropdown box at the top, set it to run for "Any user", and then head to the advanced settings section of the window. Put a check mark in the box for "Delay task for:" and set the delay for one minute. Make sure that there is a check mark in the box for "Enabled". Then click OK.
5. In the Actions tab, add an action. In the new window, make sure that "Start a program" is selected in the drop down box at the top (should be the default choice). In the field where you specify the program to run, type in "SC". In the "Add arguments (optional):" field, type in "Start wlansvc". Then click OK.
6. Go through the other tabs to make sure you're happy with all of the other settings. The default values should be just fine, but feel free to change them if you want to. Then click OK.
7. Make sure that WLAN AutoConfig is still set to Manual.
8. Re-enable your Auto-Connect feature.
9. Reboot the system.
About 60 seconds after you log into your user account you should see a black command window flash onto the screen and then disappear again. That is your automatic task running and starting up the WLAN AutoConfig servicve. Another 30-60 seconds later and you should have access to your wireless network and the internet, and you don't have to interact with it or manually start anything. You can also try setting the task delay to 30 seconds rather than 1 minute, but on my system that wasn't a long enough delay to prevent the CPU usage issues, whereas 1 minute was sufficient. On my system, it enables the wireless before the system even finishes loading up my normal startup applications like my antivirus, so Idon't even notice a slowdown on the bootup process, let alone any wait time before I can use my internet.
This isn't a fix, and what we really need is for Microsoft to figure out what they did wrong, and fix it, but in the meantime, this works.
Good luck
On a side note: Unless Microsoft gets busy on fixing Vista so that it's backwards compatible with my old games, I'm still going to downgrade to XP (like a LOT of people have been doing for various reasons)... assuming I can find XP compatible hardware drivers anyway. Right now I can get more of my games to run under Linux than I can under Vista, despite the fact that they were programmed to run in a DirectX Windows environment only... that's simply unacceptable.

Setup system check says internet explorer is open when it's not

When I get to the setup screen (for the trial version of Illustrator), the first thing is system check. It says my internet explorer is open, and it's not. I've closed all programs that use internet including all of my antivirus and spyware, my vista sidebar, etc. I've opened task manager, gone into processes and tried to end the internet processes but they show up a second later. They just won't close! I've messed with my automatic startup programs, and that didn't work either. I've taken my ethernet cable out and tried that. Nothing works. Anybody know what's going on?

Does the performance tab of Task Manager show abnormally high CPU usage even when you have nothing running?
You might have some piece of malware doing nasty stuff. What's showing up as iexplore.exe in Task Manager is probably not Internet Explorer at all.
Update all your antivirus and spyware definitions and run thorough scans.
Do a Google search with keyphrase 'internet explorer constantly running,' and you'll turn up some discussions with links to malware removal tools.

Explorer.exe application error "Memory could not be written" ?! OS seems stuck now

(Model # m6-k010dx) My new laptop after 13 months automatically updated from windows 8 to 8.1 after I had said 'no' as many times as it allowed. After the update my files are still on it and most things are there but it seems 'stuck' and the orange screen keeps flickering like start to desktop so fast you usually can't even click anything in time to open it before it switches. I was told that the drivers probably needed to be updated first (eventhough I am pretty sure I kept up with all my other updates that popped up the only one I postponed was 8.1) and that I should refresh it, so I lose my programs but keep my files. I'm so sad I now lost Photoshop cs6 and my prefered antivirus (webroot) But anyway back to 8.0, it functioned fine aside from annoying pop ups to install norton antivirus no thank you, i bought webroot again. no updates were available.
I went to HP.com drivers update, searched for my pc and its correct update, and next thing I know is it's installing windows 8.1....??!
So again when it's 'done' and reboots, the screens flicker forever. I shut down, restart, same. so I put it back to windows 8...it will install 8.1 on its own any day now.. Please help asap!!!
Also forgot to mention when the screens are flickering, a few explorer exe application errors pop up on occaision. IE: "the instruction at 0xaa0c663c referenced memory at 0xaa0c663c. The memory could not be written. Click ok to terminate the program." was one the last time,
and the time before it, the initial windows 8.1 update when I still had Webroot antivirus, the pop up said "the instruction at 0x9b63663c referenced memory at 0x9b63663c. The memory could not be written. Click ok to terminate the program." the other pop ups the initial time came from Webroot - IE: "This file is trying to install itself to start every time the computer turns on C: /Windows/system32/DrvInst (dot) exe" and gives the options to block, allow once, or allow always.
Another trying to install every time computer starts is "C: /WINDOWS/system32/wbem/WMIADAP (dot) EXE"
and another is : "Process ID: 4244
Thread ID: 3460
Event Type: Registry
Access: Write
Registry Key: /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Services/NDIS/IfTypes/131
Value: IfUsedNetLuidIndices"
I searched all of those but found nothing. How can I have a smooth update? THank you in advance

Hi @ASAP666 ,
Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome. I have looked into your issue about your HP ENVY m6-k010dx Sleekbook and trying to update to Windows 8.1. Before updating did you make sure your system was up to date with Windows. Here is something from Microsoft that might help.
Looking into this I have found that it is a driver issue usually associated with USB devices.
Please note remove any and all USB devices. Disconnect all non-essential devices, as these could cause some issues.
Plug the power adapter directly into a functioning wall outlet. Do not plug it into a power strip, surge protector, or secondary power source as this could cause and issue.
I recommend to do this update to disable your Anti Virus or Webroot temporarily to allow the update to go through.
Please let me know how this goes.
Thanks.
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IE and explorer.exe issue

Hello,
I have a strange problem with the newest build of Windows 10. I installed the windows 10 x64 on my old laptop (2gb RAM DDR2, Intel core2 duo x64 T5800 2GHZ processor).
I also have the latest build on my work computer (desktop PC, 4gb RAM, Intel celeron E3300 2.5 GHZ).
The problem which I have is quite strange. I don't have these problems on my work computer first at all. On that computer I installed first the x64 9841 build and then the computer automatically updated it to x64 9879 build.
So, let me explain the problem. After installation of 9879 build on my laptop, my explorer crashes without any information and restarts. I don't quite have any log in eventvwr.msc and more importantly, I cannot install firefox on the computer from explorer.
When I use the explorer to navigate to the install setup and i double click it nothing happens. (I can right click--->open, or run it as administrator but nothing is happening). The only way in which I am able to start the setup is to run it from command
prompt, from where it works without any problem. Also, I have problem with IE. When I start IE it does not load any page. I can open a new tab and write any address but it does not open anything. I don't get any error (no connection and so on) just a blank
page. The IE says that the page is unresponsive. In task manager the IE has just around 5 Mb of memory used and it does not increase no matter if I leave it for hours.
The strange fact is that I don't have any of these problems on my work PC. Could be a laptop problem? The point is that I had before W7 on the laptop which worked without any problem. No any setup error, and so on. The firefox install file works on my work
pc and on w7 (the other laptop).
I don't have any pending updates.
Did anyone of you had this problem?
Thank you in advance for any comments,
Best regards,
Treitli Sebastian

Hello again,
Since nobody suggested me anything I came back with a short update on the problem.
The last updates via Windows update solved my problem with explorer.exe. There is no any issue with the explorer anymore. I am able to launch the installation files and browse the computer without any crashing of the explorer.
However the problem with the internet explorer is not solved. Even if I don't use it I still try report this issue.
Regarding the internet explorer, the problem consists in the fact that that after computer start up, I can launch internet explorer but does not load anything. Just a blank page, I am able to open new tab but does not load any address which I type in. In
the task manager it uses around 5 MB and no error is given. I saw (by mistake when my wifi router restarted) that if I disconnect the internet, IE will give me a no connection error. After this, if I reconnect, it will work with no problem. Moreover, if I
close the IE and restart it with the internet connected, it will work. However, if I restart the computer (during startup it connects to the wifi) and start again the IE the problem is still there as it was described above. Again, if I disconnect the internet,
I get the connection error from IE and then it will work till the next restart.
I strongly believe that actually is not a problem of the IE itself but a windows service which fail to give some access for the IE (I am not good at explanation since I am not programmer/computer technician).
Anyone had this strange problem? Does anyone has any idea what could be the problem?
Thank you in advance,
Best regards,
Treitli Sebastian

ICloud crashes my explorer.exe

Hey,
So basically, everytime i set up my iCloud Control Panel for only the Photo Stream thingy, whatever folder i try to open computer, control panel, documents, my explorer.exe always crashes until i unistall it. Im running Windows 7 32-bit and my iPhone 4 running iOS 6 is syncing the photos.
Would any know what the problem is?

I had this same problem (iCloud for PC - Windows 7). For me, Photostream stopped syncing properly over a year ago, and after a recent iCloud (PC) update, I couldn't even log into iCloud anymore. It would crash every time during the log in process. I tried everything I could think of (installing, reinstalling, etc.). I had pretty much given up and stopped using iCloud since last Fall. I'm happy to report now that I have fixed it. I know this is an old thread, but I'm leaving this here in case someone else comes across it (which I'm sure they will).
Other people who have had this problem mentioned something about having to reinstall Outlook to fix it. Maybe that would work for some people, but since I don't have Outlook, that wasn't going to work for me. Here's what did work: I disabled the Apple Push program from starting up with my computer.
In case you don't know how to access that, go to your Start menu, and type "msconfig" in the Search box. Once you hit Enter, the System Configuration tool should open up. Click on the Startup tab, and you should be able to see all the programs that startup with your computer. Uncheck Apple Push (along with any other program you want to disable), and hit OK. You will need to restart your computer for the changes to take effect.
What does Apple Push do, and is it safe to disable? Supposedly, it helps your iDevices communicate with iCloud, etc. I can tell you right now that my iPhone communicates with my computer fine (better actually, since it's finally letting me log into iCloud and see my Photostream properly now) with it off. After some internet sleuthing, I've actually found that many people recommend you turn it off to help your computer run faster.
This wasn't something that I was actively looking to do when I found out that it worked. I had pretty much given up on having access to iCloud on my computer. I had another program that I wanted to disable from starting up automatically, so I went into System Config, and it was there that I noticed that Apple Push was even a thing. Anyway, I unchecked it (since I wasn't going to use iCloud anymore anyway), and then restarted my computer. Since iCloud was back on my mind, I decided to try logging in again. I didn't have any expectations when I did, but lo and behold! It actually worked! To top that off, Photostream was syncing again!
Anyway, hope this works for you! Good luck!

Need to restart the explorer.exe process virtually every single time I need to access a file

As the subject/title says.
This is on my replacement ThinkPad W530 which replaced my previous T530. I had my T530 from about April until earlier this week when it was picked up. The T530 gave me nothing but problems, including, but not limited to:
Constant stalling of everything on the laptop with no mouse movement
An out of the blue nonfunctioning microphone mute button and fingerprint reader a few weeks after I had the T530's motherboard replaced (because of the stalling issue)
Every hour or so, I would get successive blackouts of the screen that were about 3-5 seconds apart. Sometimes they would reset the maximisation of the windows I had open
But I digress; those were issues with my previous ThinkPad. Now the major standout issue I have with my W530 is that pretty much any time I want to access a file, I have to close and restart the explorer.exe process. This results from:
Not being able to access folders or folder shortcuts on my desktop
Not being able to use anything on my taskbar including the start menu. This includes hitting the windows key
NOTE: this is an issue with WINDOWS explorer and NOT INTERNET explorer, which one member of your support team was not able to distinguish - this person tried to direct me to WiFi troubleshooting.
The only way I have been able to remedy this has been to use task manager to reset it.
In addition, you would expect a W530 with an i7-3740QM and an Nvidia K2000M Quadro to be pretty much buttery smooth, especially considering it's about 2 weeks old, right? Far from it. This is the slowest excuse for a new laptop that is this well spec'd I have ever used.
I have done factory resets and pretty much everything under the sun within the realms of the Lenovo periperhal programs to try to remedy it (so as to not void my warranty) to no avail.
If this problem cannot be fixed without me going well out of my way, then I am demanding a refund. Your support team, whilst generally helpful and *usually* knowing what they are talking about, have not been a help, and have honestly just been another hurdle to get past so I can get my money back. I do applaud them for the willingness to sit and walk people through everything.
If this is the price I pay for the reliability of a Lenovo ThinkPad, then I greatly look forward to the glorious day I can be rid of Lenovo from my life and making about $500 while I go buy an equivalently or better spec'd laptop from quite literally any other computer company on the planet.

What operating system are you running? I assume they had you install the latest BIOS. True? If it were mine, I would suggest forcing it to use integrated graphics (in the BIOS) to rule out a problem with the NVidia driver.

2 Problems. 1. Black Screen With Only Cursor Showing 2. Explorer.exe blocked.

Hello Guys and Gals,
I am having a problem with my Laptop. First of all, my screen is black with only a cursor showing (that is not blinking) and I can only run programs through Task Manager. Second, I cannot open 'explorer.exe'. When
I try I get this error: "This app can't run on your PC. To find a PC version, check with the software publisher". I really would like help with this as I do not wish to spend another $500 on the same laptop. Also due to the fact that I have
many important files I do not wish to loose.
INFORMATION:
I have an Acer running Windows 8 (It came with it).
6GB DDR3 Memory
Thank you for your time. Cheers!
-Gamerboy1337

Hi,
I notice the issues are related to Windows 8. I suggest you post in Windows 8 forum to get professional support.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/home?category=w8itpro
Niki Han
TechNet Community Support

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