Explorer.exe flickering after RDC

I'm having a desktop computer A with windows 8.1 and when I connect to it from some other computer B with windows 8 through Remote Desktop Connection, because of the screen resolution change, the entire desktop (explorer.exe) flickers desperately
and is extremely slow.
What I do typically is to kill explorer.exe (which is still slow due to the flickering, because TaskManager responds slowly) and then restart explorer.exe. Everything back to normal then.
If I wait long enough (perhaps 5min) it may go back to normal but I'm not sure.
The same problem shows up even if I log into A locally (while having RDC logged in previously from B), because a resolution change is still needed in this case.
The same problem was there when I had A in windows 8 rather than windows 8.1.
Any idea what is going on?

Hi，
Have you tried to change the Remote Desktop Connection properties before you connect to the RDP? change the settings under "Display" and "Experience" tab.
Sometimes, the RDP flickering is related with some RemoteFX which is used to enhance the display quality, [Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Remote Session Environment] you
can turn off RemoteFX related policy as a test.
Yolanda Zhu
TechNet Community Support

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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.
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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
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Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 6.3.9600.16441, time stamp: 0x5265dec8
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.3.9600.16496, time stamp: 0x52b3f283
Exception code: 0xe06d7363
Fault offset: 0x0000000000005a88
Faulting process id: 0x1664
Faulting application start time: 0x01cf52b7670e4534
Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: a4c05eaf-beaa-11e3-be98-ca4f0724b24c
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Faulting package-relative application ID:
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Provider
[ Name]
Application Error
EventID
1000
[ Qualifiers]
0
Level
2
Task
100
Keywords
0x80000000000000
TimeCreated
[ SystemTime]
2014-04-07T23:16:27.000000000Z
EventRecordID
16783
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Application
Computer
Dell
Security
EventData
explorer.exe
6.3.9600.16441
5265dec8
KERNELBASE.dll
6.3.9600.16496
52b3f283
e06d7363
0000000000005a88
1664
01cf52b7670e4534
C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
a4c05eaf-beaa-11e3-be98-ca4f0724b24c
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start end module name
00007ffd`abc10000 00007ffd`abec6000 rse (export symbols) rse.dll
Loaded symbol image file: rse.dll
Image path: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2014\Bin\rse.dll
Image name: rse.dll
Timestamp: Fri Mar 01 06:00:41 2013 (512FD389)
CheckSum: 002B8E46
ImageSize: 002B6000
File version: 18.0.17000.0
Product version: 1.0.0.1
File flags: 0 (Mask 3F)
File OS: 40004 NT Win32
File type: 2.0 Dll
File date: 00000000.00000000
Translations: 0409.04b0
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ProductName: Autodesk, Inc. rse
InternalName: rse
OriginalFilename: rse.dll
ProductVersion: Autodesk Inventor 2014
FileVersion: 18, 0, 17000, 0000
PrivateBuild: Build: 170, Release: 2014 RTM - Date: Thu 02/28/2013
SpecialBuild: Build: 170, Release: 2014 RTM - Date: Thu 02/28/2013
FileDescription: rse
LegalCopyright: Copyright © 1996-2013 Autodesk, Inc.
LegalTrademarks: Copyright © 1996-2013 Autodesk, Inc.
Comments: Copyright © 1996-2013 Autodesk, Inc.
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Windows 8.1 gradually slows down after hours. Speed returns normal if restart "explorer.exe".

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slows down after system boot, noticeable after 3-4 hours, really slow after 8-9 hours.
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Hello,
For the last months, I repeatedly have the problem that sometimes (every 2nd or 3rd time) after resuming from hibernation, in a few cases also after disconnecting from the Internet, one or more instances of explorer.exe are consuming 100% CPU, but never
the shell instance.
I tried figuring out what it was doing, but I was unsuccessful so far.
Here is a stack of the thread which consumed most of the CPU:
0, ntoskrnl.exe!KiDeliverApc+0x166
1, ntoskrnl.exe!KiSwapThread+0x31f
2, ntoskrnl.exe!KiCommitThreadWait+0x129
3, ntoskrnl.exe!ExpWaitForResource+0x29f
4, ntoskrnl.exe!ExEnterPriorityRegionAndAcquireResourceExclusive+0x1ad
5, win32k.sys!EnterCritAvoidingDitHitTestHazard+0x13
6, win32k.sys!NtUserMessageCall+0x28
7, ntoskrnl.exe!KiSystemServiceCopyEnd+0x13
8, user32.dll!NtUserMessageCall+0xa
9, user32.dll!SendMessageWorker+0x168
10, user32.dll!SendMessageW+0xfb
11, ExplorerFrame.dll!CNscTree::_TreeInvalidateItemInfo+0xd0
12, ExplorerFrame.dll!CNscTree::_EnumBackgroundDone+0xb4a14
13, ExplorerFrame.dll!CNscTree::OnQIUpdateEnumDone+0x93
14, ExplorerFrame.dll!CNscEnumQueueItem::Dispatch+0xcf
15, ExplorerFrame.dll!CTaskLock::DispatchQueueItem+0xc5
16, ExplorerFrame.dll!CNscTree::_SubClassTreeWndProc+0x118
17, ExplorerFrame.dll!CNscTree::s_SubClassTreeWndProc+0x5f
18, comctl32.dll!CallNextSubclassProc+0xe0
19, comctl32.dll!MasterSubclassProc+0xa2
20, user32.dll!UserCallWinProcCheckWow+0x149
21, user32.dll!DispatchMessageWorker+0x1a7
22, AppVEntSubsystems64.dll!VirtualizeCurrentThread+0x1e492
23, ExplorerFrame.dll!CExplorerFrame::FrameMessagePump+0xe3
24, ExplorerFrame.dll!BrowserThreadProc+0x5e
25, ExplorerFrame.dll!BrowserNewThreadProc+0x3a
26, ExplorerFrame.dll!CExplorerTask::InternalResumeRT+0x12
27, ExplorerFrame.dll!CRunnableTask::Run+0x114
28, shell32.dll!CShellTaskThread::ThreadProc+0x2a3
29, shell32.dll!CShellTaskThread::s_ThreadProc+0x2f
30, SHCore.dll!StrRetToBSTR+0x19f
31, kernel32.dll!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x22
32, ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart+0x34
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+ " SkyDrivePro1 (ErrorConflict)" "Microsoft OneDrive for Business Extensions" "Microsoft Corporation" "c:\program files\microsoft office 15\root\vfs\programfilesx64\microsoft office\office15\grooveex.dll" "12.11.2014 01:13"
+ "{C52AF81D-F7A0-4AAB-8E87-F80A60CCD396}" "" "Apache Software Foundation" "c:\program files (x86)\openoffice 4\program\shlxthdl\shlxthdl.dll" "20.09.2013 12:50"
+ "{C52AF81D-F7A0-4AAB-8E87-F80A60CCD396}" "" "Apache Software Foundation" "c:\program files (x86)\openoffice 4\program\shlxthdl\shlxthdl_x64.dll" "20.09.2013 12:41"
+ "7-Zip" "7-Zip Shell Extension" "Igor Pavlov" "c:\program files\7-zip\7-zip32.dll" "18.04.2011 19:34"
+ "7-Zip" "7-Zip Shell Extension" "Igor Pavlov" "c:\program files\7-zip\7-zip.dll" "18.04.2011 19:35"
+ "ANotepad++64" "ShellHandler for Notepad++ (64 bit)" "" "c:\program files (x86)\notepad++\nppshell_06.dll" "12.05.2014 10:49"
+ "Ath_CopyHook" "Bluetooth File Transfer Plugin" "Qualcomm®Atheros®" "c:\program files (x86)\bluetooth suite\folderviewimpl.dll" "25.09.2013 10:58"
+ "Atheros" "Atheros Bluetooth Module" "Qualcomm®Atheros®" "c:\program files (x86)\bluetooth suite\btvappext.dll" "25.09.2013 10:58"
+ "DropboxExt" "Dropbox Shell Extension" "Dropbox, Inc." "c:\users\david\appdata\roaming\dropbox\bin\dropboxext64.24.dll" "24.06.2014 01:32"
+ "DropboxExt1" "Dropbox Shell Extension" "Dropbox, Inc." "c:\users\david\appdata\roaming\dropbox\bin\dropboxext.24.dll" "24.06.2014 01:31"
+ "FTShellContext" "Atheros Bluetooth Module" "Qualcomm®Atheros®" "c:\program files (x86)\bluetooth suite\shellcontextext.dll" "25.09.2013 10:58"
+ "GDContextMenu" "Google Drive shell extension" "Google" "c:\program files (x86)\google\drive\contextmenu64.dll" "16.01.2015 01:57"
+ "GDriveBlacklistedOverlay" "Google Drive shell extension" "Google" "c:\program files (x86)\google\drive\googledrivesync64.dll" "16.01.2015 01:56"
+ "igfxcui" "igfxpph Module" "Intel Corporation" "c:\windows\system32\igfxpph.dll" "09.09.2013 18:26"
+ "LockHunterShellExt" "LockHunter Explorer Extension" "Crystal Rich Ltd" "c:\program files\lockhunter\lhshellext32.dll" "25.03.2009 08:53"
+ "LockHunterShellExt" "LockHunter Explorer Extension" "Crystal Rich Ltd" "c:\program files\lockhunter\lhshellext64.dll" "28.04.2009 10:21"
+ "PDF Shell Extension" "PDF Shell Extension" "Adobe Systems, Inc." "c:\program files (x86)\common files\adobe\acrobat\activex\pdfshell.dll" "11.05.2013 10:34"
+ "PushbulletCtx" "" "" "File not found: :/Program Files (x86)/Pushbullet/pushbullet_ctx.DLL" ""
+ "RecuvaShellExt" "Recuva shell extensions" "Piriform Ltd" "c:\program files\recuva\recuvashell64.dll" "14.03.2014 12:41"
+ "SD360" "360 Total Security" "" "c:\program files (x86)\360\total security\menuex64.dll" "12.01.2015 03:55"
+ "SourceGearDiffMergeShellExtension32" "SourceGear DiffMerge ShellExtension 32" "SourceGear LLC" "c:\program files (x86)\sourcegear\common\diffmerge\sourcegeardiffmergeshellextension32.dll" "23.10.2013 19:15"
+ "SourceGearDiffMergeShellExtension64" "SourceGear DiffMerge ShellExtension 64" "SourceGear LLC" "c:\program files\sourcegear\common\diffmerge\sourcegeardiffmergeshellextension64.dll" "23.10.2013 19:17"
+ "StartMenuExt" "Start Menu Helper Extension" "IvoSoft" "c:\windows\syswow64\startmenuhelper32.dll" "20.04.2014 18:17"
+ "StartMenuExt" "Start Menu Helper Extension" "IvoSoft" "c:\windows\system32\startmenuhelper64.dll" "20.04.2014 18:16"
+ "WinRAR32" "WinRAR shell extension" "Alexander Roshal" "c:\program files\winrar\rarext32.dll" "02.12.2014 11:07"
+ "WinRAR" "WinRAR shell extension" "Alexander Roshal" "c:\program files\winrar\rarext.dll" "02.12.2014 11:07"
+ "WinSCPCopyHook" "Drag&Drop shell extension for WinSCP (64-bit)" "Martin Prikryl" "c:\program files (x86)\winscp\dragext64.dll" "14.08.2013 12:22"
I you have any clue what might be going, I would be very happy to hear it. It's really annoying, as I have to kill explorer.exe and thereby close all my folder windows when this happens.
Thank you!
Best regards,
David Trapp

Hello,
thanks for having a look. However, I already ran SFC before posting on this forum (as part of my own investigation) and it came back clean. RescueTime (a time tracking tool) is probably not the culprit because it happened also several times in the past without
RescueTime being running (that was because I had accidentally removed it from autorun at that time).
Unfortunately, I can't follow your "invalid date" explanation. I don't think an "invalid date" is anywhere involved; in fact, the method in question is called "_TreeInvalidateItemInfo" and not "_TreeInvalidDateItemInfo"
(note that there is only one "d"), so I assume its job is just to invalidate (and in turn, refresh) the cached information about nodes in the left pane's folder tree of the explorer window(s) - since the folder tree is the only NamespaceTreeControl
(whose corresponding class name is CNscTree) in explorer folder view windows. As I see it, something is causing explorer to repeatedly refresh the folder tree data, but I am stuck at finding out what exactly.
Best regards,
David Trapp
EDIT: Disassembling ExplorerFrame!CNscTree::_TreeInvalidateItemInfo confirms that, because it seems to call TreeView_SetItem for a tree node and its parent (possibly with all fields set to *_CALLBACK), and CNscTree::_UpdateItemDisplayInfo
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>
>
> So not an issue anymore? ;-) Seen missing icons before... but never
> seen it like this...
>
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Log Name:      Application
Source:        .NET Runtime
Date:          10/22/2014 9:36:09 AM
Event ID:      1026
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      tcs-reinders-win8.mcwcorp.net
Description:
Application: explorer.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: exception code c0000005, exception address 00007FFF7222F394
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name=".NET Runtime" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1026</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-10-22T14:36:09.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>342048</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>tcs-reinders-win8.mcwcorp.net</Computer>
    <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
    <Data>Application: explorer.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: exception code c0000005, exception address 00007FFF7222F394
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
AND
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          10/22/2014 9:36:10 AM
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      tcs-reinders-win8.mcwcorp.net
Description:
Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 6.4.9860.0, time stamp: 0x543629ae
Faulting module name: twinui.dll, version: 6.4.9860.0, time stamp: 0x54362a4a
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000010f394
Faulting process id: 0x1144
Faulting application start time: 0x01cfee057f5fbe87
Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\twinui.dll
Report Id: c340df7d-59f8-11e4-bf4d-f0921ce7ea1e
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Application Error" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>100</Task>
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    <Data>543629ae</Data>
    <Data>twinui.dll</Data>
    <Data>6.4.9860.0</Data>
    <Data>54362a4a</Data>
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Michael Reinders, MCITP:Enterprise Administrator Tushaus Computer Services

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.
Please click “Accept as Solution ” if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution.
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Multiple instances of explorer.exe running in task manager

I got a dropper trojan virus on my computer that microsoft security essencials do not recognized but after running "superantispyware" antivirus I got discover it and delete it. After that, I still could find the infected files in my
administrator folders as .temp files and I just erased them. After that my computer started crashing and runing several instances of explorer.exe in the task manager with different memory values, some of them ascending to 350,000. I have set up my computer
to run just the basic services, I have tried windows in safe mode, ran other antivirus programs but still it is performing the same. As far as I have noticed other unusual process present are host.dll, dllhost.exe, and logonUI.exe. Any idea about it? Thanks
in advance for your help.

I have the same issue. It started about a month ago when I was filling out a form online and had to quit and close the window. My system got very buggy (can't remember details), flashing, then really slow. Found a bunch of explorer.exe instances
in Task Manager. Ran Security Essentials and several other anti-viruses, nothing found.
Running Win7 Pro, sp1, 64-bit, CoreI5, 4Gb Ram
Restored system to a previous version, didn't work
Restored last system image, didn't work
Used System Repair Disk - ran Memory Diagnostic. Said it would give me report after reboot. Never saw a report after reboot. But only one instance of explorer.exe in task manager at that point. Took disk out, rebooted normally. After
20 minutes or so, the multiple instances were back.
Used Repair Disk again, ran Memory Diagnostic. Again, no report after reboot (leaving disk in machine both times), but only one instance running again.
Did this a few times with the same result, so now leaving disk in system and always boot from it.
Ran Security Essentials again, found that rovnix virus, removed, ran again, found it again.
Ran search for instances and found many. Here's an example:
C:\Windows\explorer.exe
C:\Windows\winsxs\wow64_microsoft-windows-explorer_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17567_none_b9fc4815c4e292b5
C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-explorer_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.21669_none_b0333b22a99da332
C:\Windows\winsxs\wow64_microsoft-windows-explorer_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.21669_none_ba87e574ddfe652d
C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-explorer_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17567_none_afa79dc39081d0ba
C:\Windows\SysWOW64
When I check properties on the now single one on Task Manager, this is what it shows:
C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-explorer_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17567_none_afa79dc39081d0ba\explorer.exe
C:\Windows\explorer.exe
I was going to reinstall entire system, but was from an Anytime Upgrade which now says it's invalid. Much more to story on that (calls to MS support, etc.).

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

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.

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.

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! C:\windows\explorer.exe

"This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information."
I have spent days attempting to find a fix for this error by reading a large number of similar posts and haven't found anything that helps.
I have tried everything from editing the registry, installing Microsoft Fix IT apps, to uninstalling all previous versions of Visual C++ and re-installing the most recent version (2012 I think?).
Most of the "fixes" I've seen say to uninstall the program causing the error after updating and replaces your Visual C++ but I can't do this with explorer.exe.
Is there anything I can try.
Running 32 bit Windows 7.

this works for Photoshop Elements 9?
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System
Provider
[ Name]
SideBySide
EventID
80
[ Qualifiers]
49409
Level
2
Task
0
Keywords
0x80000000000000
TimeCreated
[ SystemTime]
2015-03-17T20:16:59.000000000Z
EventRecordID
318648
Channel
Application
Computer
VirginiaRoss-PC
Security
EventData
C:\Windows\WinSxS\manifests\amd64_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7601.17514_none_fa396087175ac9ac.manifest
C:\Windows\WinSxS\manifests\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7601.17514_none_41e6975e2bd6f2b2.manifest

Windows 8.1 issue explorer.exe error on shutdown NOT resolved and painfully slow bootup

Hi,
I have a brand new HP Pavilion Laptop with Windows 8 64bit. I just downloaded the free update to 8.1. And then problems started.
First off, the boot up time has almost doubled. Just before the desktop becomes visible, there is a 10 second period where all you see is a black screen. At times this is more than 10 seconds. Then the desktop wallpaper can be seen.
Secondly, the most annoying problem-, everytime I shutdown or restart , I get an explorer.exe error saying memory cant be read some instruction referenced memory at 0x00000000. ?! What the h-- is this ? I mean is this what we expect to see after updating to
Windows 8.1 ? This is ridiculous. There is no offical response from the developers either. This is affecting many people all over the world and there is not even any official patch or announcement ?
I have read similar posts here and none of the solutions work. Someone says edit the registry, someone says remove the bluetooth service from startup ?! nothing and stopping a bluetooth service should not be considered a solution. Why should I not be able
to use bluetooth just to resolve this Windows 8.1 error ??
Please fix this problem urgently. And DO NOT ask us to re-install windows... I mean come on.. You think people have nothing better to do than installing/reinstalling Windows throughout the day ?? Bandwidth does not come cheap everywhere in the world either.
Please release a patch or some guidelines on fixing this problem ASAP.

Hi, I have checked with that link on HP's site and for my product number it said that my laptop has been tested-Update your System from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1
HP has tested your Windows 8 PC with Windows 8.1 and has created update instructions.
This is what they say. And I clicked on the Windows Store Icon >> Then I clicked on the Upgrade to Windows 8.1 Tile >> Then I clicked Download Windows 8.1 Update ( over 3 GB ) waited for a couple of days >> Then clicked next a bunch of
times >> Selected some options that it asked me >> Then waited some more >> some more waiting >> and in 2 weeks I had upgraded to Windows 8.1 >> Then the above PROBLEMS started...
So, as a request to the tech team or dev team, pls fix this issue.

File Explorer (explorer.exe) Crashes in Windows 8.1 at shutdown

Hi,
Iv been running a custom built PC with Windows 8.1 (Win7 upgrade to Win8 then 8.1) Now since a couple of weeks after Win8.1, which was running perfectly fine up until last month when I Started to get these Explorer.exe crashes, Im quite knowledge able
with PC so iv done various things such as System Restore (as far back a could) and also followed all the guides on using the Registry editor to disable the Shell Extensions, in addition iv also used Registry Recycler but all to no avail. I then saw this support.microsoft.com/kb/2929203
and decided to use the charms bar to shut down but it still made no difference at all.
I don't really want to preform a refresh because i have so many Desktop Programs installed and i have only had this issue since around Mid way through last month, each time on shut down the instructions (referenced memory) are different but all structured
like: "The instruction at 0x referenced memory at 0x. The memory could not be read. Please if you could help me find a solution to solve this problem with
out preforming a refresh, I know this could be a a program but event viewer tells me nothing so I would greatly appreciate any help.
My System Specs are as follows:
MB: Asus Sabertooth FX R2
CPU: FX6300
GPU: GTX660
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit With Latest Updates
If you require any other info just ask :-)

Another Update after changing some options in Event Viewer I get this two logs from each crash at shutdown:
The process C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE (DESKTOP) has initiated the power off of computer DESKTOP on behalf of user Desktop\Calum for the following reason: Other (Unplanned)
Reason Code: 0x0
Shut-down Type: power off
Comment:
Followed by:
Application pop-up: explorer.exe - Application Error : The instruction at 0xffffffff referenced memory at 0xffffffff. The memory could not be written.
Click on OK to terminate the program
EDIT: I also got the time of the first reported error: 02/02/2014 04:50:26

Explorer.exe flickering after RDC

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