configure Veteran Posted December 27, 2001 Veteran Share Posted December 27, 2001 I was not paying attention when this happen so I'm not quite sure what caused this. As you can see in the attachment, there's a task with "folder" icon and has no name on it. When it was actived (pressed), it'll filled up 75% of my screen. This task can't be close, there's no right-click menu, no name, the only way to get rid of it is to press WIN KEY + D, then it'll be minimized. Any idea what might have caused this? :ermm: PS: I'm gonna try kill explorer and see if I can get rid of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinh Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 I just get that now and then too, I just done a ctrl-alt-del and killed the folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samo123_uk Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 what have you been downloading lately? It could be a virus or a trojan. Or maybe just a ****ed up folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted December 27, 2001 Author Veteran Share Posted December 27, 2001 I don't think it's a virus or a trojan. vinh, how did you kill the folder process? I didn't see it in the list. I've to kill explorer and reload it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 i experience that heaps esepcially visiting neowin.net thats the only time i get it i think its an error it doesnt load correctly within the browser all i do is i see the folder and click on it so that the folder is active and then alt +F4 and closes it done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElGato Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 I have experienced this on occasion, it seems to happen at random immediately after opening a folder or IE. I find that closing all open folders and/or IE will clear it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurudesign.no Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 I have the same problem. Does everyone here have windows XP? I don't think I had the same problem with 98/2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h71y6 Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 Originally posted by configure I don't think it's a virus or a trojan. vinh, how did you kill the folder process? I didn't see it in the list. I've to kill explorer and reload it. Opening a folder executes an explorer process. So if you open ONE folder, u'd have 2 explorer processes. The less memory usage process would be (probably) the folder process whereas the other one will be your desktop explorer. In any case if you accidently kill the desktop one, just run task explorer.exe from the task manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teflon Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 Originally posted by h71y6 Opening a folder executes an explorer process. So if you open ONE folder, u'd have 2 explorer processes. The less memory usage process would be (probably) the folder process whereas the other one will be your desktop explorer. In any case if you accidently kill the desktop one, just run task explorer.exe from the task manager. This is only true when you tell windows to launch folder windows in a seperate process. By default, windows runs all folders under one explorer process. See the attached image ... I never had this happen to me but I see the easiest way to kill it would be just to select the funny folder on the taskbar and hit ALT+F4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pctuk Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 so what are the pros/cons of opening windows in new processes?? cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teflon Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 I'm not sure but I believe this option was put into windows back in the win98 days in order to stop IE from crashing windows. MS used to load IE and all explorer windows under one process "explorer.exe". So when IE or one explorer window would crash, the whole system would crash. Now if you choose to run them in seperate processes, then when one crashes everything else isn't affected. I would assume that there is a little perfomance decrease when openeing a lot of IE and explorer windows though. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h71y6 Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 Ah teflon, you are quite correct. I forgot all about my little adventure the other day. I did set my windows to run a parent explorer process everytime i open a folder window. As the performance goes, if you have a fast processor and a lot of ram, say more than 500Mhz and 128MB ram.. i think you should not experience any slow down. The pro is that you can kill any folder you please without reprimand. It does take more ram i notice, but that would make sense because it doesn't inherit anything, unlike the normal window setting. Like i said, if you have enough ram you should be allright. I originally wanted to set it back but i didn't bother to find out the extensions in the command line to call a child. Anyways, thanks teflon for correcting me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinh Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 configure what i done was just ctrl-alt-del and it was on the process but with no name just the icon, i killed it and took about 10secs to disapeer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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