What do you mean by "windows explorer crashes"? I know that for certain configurations, explorer will first examine the files before updating its window, which can take quite a while if you have files of the size you mention. That issue is unrelated to SP2.

Message Edited by Dietmar on 09-04-2004 09:23 AM

Windows Explorer will hang for minutes (I haven't waited long enough to find out if it self recovers - and I have never had this problem before.).

I can't even right click on the Windows menu bar at the bottom of the screen to get the 'Task Manager'. I have to hit CTRL-ATL-DEL to get it to come up. It will then say that it is 'Not Responding'.

 

My Dimension 2350 also crashed when I tried to run Windows Explorer after SP2 install.  I uninstalled it and things worked fine.  I then reinstalled it again and had the same problem.  I had turned of AVG Antivirus and Zone Alarm firewall to install.  I couldn't click on any folders and open them.  Everything else seemed to work fine.  I could open a program like Word and use the open file icon and could get to my documents and everything.  But Explorer just wouldn't work.  Finally I got tired of trying to fix it and just uninstalled SP2.  Things are working fine but I keep getting Auto Update messages that SP2 is ready to install.  Does anyone have any idea why Windows Explorer would act up on SP2 install and how do I fix it so that it doesn't happen if I reinstall SP2 again.  I thought the other features of SP2 were good and when I installed it on my daughters laptop she had no problems at all.  Any ideas would help.  Thanks.