# Ye olde "Windows Explorers is not responding" error

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ye-olde-windows-explorers-is-not-responding-error/299413>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [November 4, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ye-olde-windows-explorers-is-not-responding-error/299413 "2009-11-04T18:43:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ye-olde-windows-explorers-is-not-responding-error/299413/1 "2009-11-04T18:43:28Z")

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I recently bought a new desktop (Running Vista, and got an upgrade voucher to 7 with it).  
But I’m having the annoying “Windows Explorer is not responding” error when I launch several programs.  
Like today; I tried opening iTunes, and the error came up. All nice 'n stuff, Windows Explorer came back in less then 2 seconds. However, right-clicking my desktop also made this error appear. I tried using TuneUp Utilities to check for any registry, hard-drive or w/e kind of errors that might be present on my computer.

Googling for an entire day didn’t bring up much, other than a specific scan, which was a command line for the Execute program (something like SFD/ SCANNOW or something… I forgot).

Any idea what can cause and hopefully solve this?  
My laptop runs Vista as well, but nothing wrong there.

My desktop specs:  
4GB RAM  
Intel Quad 2.33Ghz~  
Nvidia GeForce NT220  
1TB Harddisk space