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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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