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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why do i need to restore?

Because i had the following installed on my laptop :

aston shell, macromedia MX studio 2004, adobe standard 8, tune up utilities 2007, getright 6.2a, utorrent, nero smart, office 2007, blah blah blah..

so it would take forever for my laptop to get up from sleep or to start afresh, and i practically avoided formatting since 4 months, so im glad that there is a secret dell partition eating up 4 GB of my hard-disk and saving an image of the hdd.

All i had to do, was restart the machine, before the os loads, hold to CTRL + F11 key and booom…

the dell semantec ghost server launched  and the image started loading..

cool han? brand new as if i opened the laptop from the box!!
asked me to accept the dell license,  gave me the service tag details(wot do i use that for??) and thats it!
20 more minutes and im ready with the new media center XP on my laptop! YUHOOOO!!!

oh yeah, now starts the pain,

i gotta install OFFICE 2007, dreamweaver, getright, utorrent, blah blah…

here we go again! 

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