<\/p>\nI’ve had a strange error in Windows XP for several months now. It’s intermittent and as far as I can tell, random. I’ve had no luck searching the web for solutions, so any advice would be greatly valued.<\/p>\n
What happens is basically folders will stop responding. I can open up one folder, and then a few seconds later if I try to open another folder file within that folder, there will be no response. No error message, nothing. Right-clicking a file to try to get properties also yields no information. During this error opening subfolders never works, but sometimes I can open files (though I can’t right-click for properties, and if files do open, there’s always a 20 second or so delay). <\/p>\n
Usually the last folder I successfully open won’t have a menu bar, just a white space with the windows logo (see the image below). In case you don’t see the distinction, that space usually contains “File, Edit, View…” etc.<\/p>\n
If I wait long enough (usually 10 minutes or more), functionality comes back. If it happened once though, it will likely happen again within a few hours, and every few hours until I reset. It very rarely happens within a day of a reset.<\/p>\n
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In other news, another record number of hits yesterday: a whopping 79. It’s enough to make me wonder if there’s someone out there hitting refresh a million times a day (or if my own testing of the RSS capabilities did the same… I don’t think they would, but it’s possible). Hardly anyone’s leaving comments, so I’m inclined to think that this isn’t real traffic. If it is though, it might be time to look into a new web host to handle that sort of load. I’ve had suggestions for blacksun.ca, hostgator.com, and lunarpages.com. If anyone has any other suggestions, or more importantly, if you get any sort of kickback for referring me, leave a comment! (All else being equal, I might as well go with the host who’ll give my friends a free month, eh?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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