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Andrew — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 06:33:00 GMT

Using start, it launches Firefox, loads fine, but i get a popup from windows saying

"Windows cannot find 'http://www.google.com'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click Search."

odd!

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Raymond Chen — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:54:00 GMT

You can say "start iexplore http://www.microsoft.com" and it will find IE.

Andrew, the error message you're getting is a known bug in Firefox. For more info, go to google and search for "Windows cannot find 'http://www.google.com'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click Search."

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travis — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:21:00 GMT

these registry keys will fix your firefox:
--------firefox_fix.reg----------
REGEDIT4

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ftp\shell\open\ddeexec]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\gopher\shell\open\ddeexec]

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jeffdav — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:33:00 GMT

I had suspected 'start' would try to use the default browser, since my guess is it just calls ShellExecute() but I have not verfied either of those things. :)

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PeterS — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:42:00 GMT

Hi, I'm one of those people that was searching google for “explorer.exe” and came across your blog. The reason I was searching was that I am currently experiencing a problem with Windows Explorer - the frame that browses the file system. If I close this frame none of the shortcuts on the desktop or startmenu etc will reopen it. If I shut my computer down, the Windows shutdown proceedure reports an access violation. Sorry I haven't written down the message.

I was hoping that SP2 would correct the problem but this hasn't been the case. Any ideas ?

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jeffdav — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:49:00 GMT

Peter - It is unclear to me from your description what has gone wrong. You say the frame that browses the file system cannot be re-opened from the desktop or startmenu. You should be able to get to the file system on Windows XP by clicking Start->My Computer.

Is there a specific directory you want to launch repeatedly? You can create a shortcut to a directory by finding it once via My Computer, then when you are viewing the directory, click on the icon in the Address bar and drag it to the desktop.

If you see an AV when shutting down the computer, it is important to note the process. If it is happening in explorer.exe, it could be a third party plug-in loaded into explorer. Try running Ad Aware or some similar program to see what is going on.

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PeterS — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:08:00 GMT

Hi Jeff,

Sorry if I was unclear.

After start up of the computer, if I open the file system with Start-> My Computer or any other method and then close the file system window, I then have problenms reopening it.

I have tried Start-> My Computer, My Network Places, Control Panel etc + the short cut to the Recycle Bin off the desk top + all my short cuts off the desk top to specific directories.

I have found that rebooting will allow me to open it again - I try to remember not to close the window.

I have also found that if I put a CD in the drive, a pop up dialogue usually asks me what I want to do with the CD. One of the options is to view the files using Windows Explorer. This will reopen the file system window for me without having to reboot.

I regularly use Adaware and Spybot and scanning just now revealed no nasties - my access to the internet is via a network and we have virus protection, firewalls etc on the server and on my workstation.

With regard to the AV message - it doesn't always result in a dialogue appearing, but almost always produces a beep to indicate something has happened that probabbly should not be happening.

I was hoping to be able to unistall explorer and reinstall it without having to do a full reinstall of XP but reading over your blog site is giving me the impression that explorer is the very heart of XP and I'm probably due for a transplant !

Cheers

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jeffdav — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:02:00 GMT

The first problem--you can only launch explorer to browse the file system once--has me at a bit of a loss. Nothing in my experiance can definatly explain it. Can you launch IE without problems every time? You should be able to navigate IE to a file system folder: Start->Internet Explorer->alt+d->c:\->[ENTER].

The second problem--AV on shutdown--I still believe to be caused by some extension or other loaded into the explorer process. Unfortunatly there is no way to just remove and reinstall the shell... short of reinstalling windows completely. Reinstalling is always a drastic step I like to try to avoid, however.

Explorer does beep at wierd times sometimes, like if you use the enter key to select an item to navigate to from history.

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PeterS — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:44:00 GMT

Hi Jeff , not sure if you have access to error reports that go back to Microsoft and whether you would be able to locate a specific one, but I was just browsing my file system and Explorer had a problem so had to shut down. The report error dialogue came up so I accepted hoping to get a reference to give you but none was there. It managed to restart without a problem though

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sachin awasthi — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 04:59:00 GMT

My explorer.exe has a virus and i think as a result the machine is getting very slow .....

what is the solution other than re-installing the windows ......

nortons had detected it but cannot repair it ...

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yossis — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 05:05:00 GMT

i'm using win2k.
my explorer.exe crashs everytime i press control panel.
how can i fix this?
can i reinstall explorer.exe alone?
thanks.

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Jim H — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 21:23:00 GMT

OK... Here's one for you... Why would explorer.exe, when viewing in the performance tab of the task manager, *ocsilate* between low and high CPU consumption? And continue to increase until after an hour or so it consumes 100% of the CPU time! I can kill the explorer.exe task and restart it. It will start over again at low numbers but eventually take over the CPU again! I've reinstalled WinXP three times but it eventually does it again!

Jim/

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