When I shutdown or logoff on Windows XP Pro (SP2), explorer hangs and the little end task prompt appears.
I googled this and found nothing. Everywhere it’s saying explorer.exe cannot end a task. But I just did a fresh re-install of Windows XP last night and installed some common programs (Office, Flash, etc).
I tried different combinations and found:
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[] Starting up/logging in and opening any application (and closing it) results in explorer.exe hanging (end task prompt upon shutdown).
[]Starting up/logging in WITHOUT opening any application (be it task manager, windows explorer), the computer shuts down perfectly without the end task prompt.
[*]Shutting down explorer.exe and opening it from task manager will also gracefully shutdown the computer.[/LIST]Any ideas how I could fix this?
Thanks in advance.
