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All hell arise when the desktop is not responding!!

The hourglass icon of the mouse, without anything responding is very frustrating and very common. The annoying part is that the clicks of 10 minutes ago work now and it goes on not responding…

well, restarting is an option, but really! who wants to restart?

So what to do? Get more frustrated?

Oh well! If you want a solution, that might work most of the times, here it is:

This is only when ctrl + alt + del works!

If it takes 5 minutes, then so be it, atleast you wont have to shutdown!!

• STEP#1: get the TASK MANAGER up

HOW?

Try One of the following:

1. WAY-1: ctrl + alt + del
2. WAY-2: ctrl + shift + Esc

• STEP#2: Highlight explorer.exe

HOW?

Try One of the following:

(Make sure Windows Task Manager is Active, Click on Processes Tab )

1. Press the key ‘e’ on the keyboard till explorer.exe is highlighted
2. Click on Image name to sort the processes by alphabetical order, then scroll to processes starting with ‘e’

• STEP#3: End explorer.exe

1. Make sure that the explorer.exe is highlighted, and then click on “End Process” button.
2. Click on YES button for the WARNING popup.

• FINALLY: Start explorer.exe afresh

HOW?

(Make sure Windows Task Manager is Active, Click on Applications Tab )

1. Press the Button ‘New Task’
2. Type in “explorer.exe” (without quotes) into the popup
3. Click on ‘ok’ button

ENJOY!

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 at 11:00 pm and is filed under Windows XP, DELL inspiron 1505, WIN XP Media Center. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.