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Win XP Pro SP3 Explorer.exe problems

My laptop hangs on explorer.exe. Drive light stays on solid. Occasionally, I can get Taskmanager to stop the process (explorer.exe) then open a new instance of it. Most of the time everything just hangs and I have to turn the computer off and restart.

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Hi there, Start your computer in SAFE Mode, by pressing the F8 repeatedly, then scan you pPC for any viruss infections, scan for spyware too...

Restart your PC normally, see if it worked, otherwise do a repair on your machine, using the origanal windows disk, be carfull not to format it, as you will lose your data,

Let me know if you need any further help regarding this problem

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Please be so kind just to rate this solution at the end...
Thanks Tehmor

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