Frozen Explorer

[smilinjack]

Jacks Back!
When I go to>>> Start >>> My Computer, the right side of the screen is blank, and eventually it reads: "Not Responding". At that point, I must reboot.
Strangly, it does not do it when I go to: "My Documents", "My Pictures" or "My Music".
So after I reboot, everything is fine for awhile contingent on how much opening and closing is going on, but I access my files frequently and this is a pain in the asphalt!
As my units are under warranty from HP, I spoke to there so called "second level techs" many times about this and the best they could offer was to right click start and go to "Explore" instead of "My Computer". Fine, but it does it there to!

Your Assitance Appreciated!
Jack

[icecube]

A couple of things to look at here, they all revolve around the cdrom.

Check the cdrom ide cables, they could be loosely plugged in.

If you have INcd by Nero for using rewritable cd's there are known issues with it. Try removing it.

Check the cdrom drive for unreadable media. Unreadable media can also be from file names over 30 characters with spaces in them. The number thirty was arbitrarily picked.
You download a file like
"XP key gen--it works great I tested it yesterday(6-7-05).exe."
You'll have real issues just trying to delete it, or rename it.

You could have a rewriteable in the wrong cdrom drive.

Try unplugging the cdrom drives to see if the error disapears.

It's chokiing on trying to read from one of your drives.

Hope this helps,

P.S. I liked your post, very "colorful."
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