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Posted by Angelo Campanella on April 25, 2008, 1:54 pm
Please log in for more thread options I just had a crazy event, likely repeated in the past without my recognition. I routinely enter XP via the Administraor auto login at startup (I am the big cahuna; I'm the only user!). Anyway, I often use Windows Explorer to do basic directory searching. This last time, repeated clicks on my Exporer icon brought naught. After 1/2 hour of desparate jabbing, I logged of all in sight to shut down ad start from scratch. When along comes some things also to shut down including a dude called "proxy desktop" (say what???". So then I resatrted and found my dozens of requests for Explorer to be nicely posted all over like wallpaper. WHAT'S GOING ON. XP has a no-sense sense of humor. Please explain "proxy desjktop" to this single one-cylinder user! Angelo Campanella | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on April 25, 2008, 2:15 pm
Please log in for more thread options Proxy desktop can be an error message when Explorer is just acting up, you probably have some other problem and this is just a symptom. Start by running memtest86+ for a few hours, then booting windows and running Prime95 (Or Orthos if you have a multi-core CPU) for 30 minutes. If both of those pass w/o any errors, run chkdsk on the drive - you may have to reboot when prompted. Also check background tasks, killing any you don't recognize and if there are doubts about malware infection, scan the system. We need more info about what else is malfunctional on the system, in rare cases you might have just came upon an Explorer bug but the system otherwise works ok. Check Event Viewer and any other logs that seem created or updated to coincide to the time of the problem. Did you recently install XP's Service Pack 3? If so, did the problem seem to start soon thereafter? Also check the hard drive with the manufacturer's utilities, available from the respective website. I have written about hardware tests because it is a hardware newsgroup, but it may easily be a windows and/or software problem better handled in a Windows XP-centric newsgroup, though it would be prudent to check memory before scanning the hard drive with either chkdsk or manufacturer utility to greatly reduce the potential for it finding fantom errors that don't really exist. | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Angelo Campanella on April 28, 2008, 1:12 pm
Please log in for more thread options kony wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:54:50 GMT, Angelo Campanella
>> I routinely enter XP via the Administraor auto login at startup (I am
>>the big cahuna; I'm the only user!). Anyway, I often use Windows >>Explorer to do basic directory searching. This last time, repeated >>clicks on my Exporer icon brought naught. After 1/2 hour of desparate >>jabbing, I logged of all in sight to shut down ad start from scratch. >>When along comes some things also to shut down including a dude called >>"proxy desktop" (say what???". >> So then I restarted and found my dozens of requests for Explorer to be >>nicely posted all over like wallpaper. WHAT'S GOING ON. XP has a >>no-sense sense of humor. >> Please explain "proxy desjktop" to this single one-cylinder user! >> Angelo Campanella You have posted a plethora of issues and suggested actions. First, let me say that 1- I have NOT to my knowledge installed SP3, though an auto update might have done so without my knowledge, though I try to track such events. 2- Another VRRY disturbing problem just disappeared again: MS WORD, when printing via HP Software HAS and HAS NOT behaved well when the HP "Prevew" is presented (WORD only). Like the un-viewability of the Explorer screens referenced, the Print Preview would not present on my laptop screen. I had previously discovered that these screens were prenent only in alternative user's screen ("guest" or my 'personal' screen. At one point, I thought I had eliminated them by always logging in as the admisistraor, but the past 6 months, that Word/HP"preview" has been hidden, which in turn caused a print cue jam: I had to use PrintSpooler repeatedly to pruge the jammed documents, then re-print without preview. But now that has subsided thanks to the recent proxy desktop elimination. > Proxy desktop can be an error message when Explorer is just
> acting up, you probably have some other problem and this is > just a symptom. Likely so. > Start by running memtest86+ for a few hours, then booting
> windows and running Prime95 (Or Orthos if you have a > multi-core CPU) for 30 minutes. If both of those pass w/o > any errors, run chkdsk on the drive - you may have to reboot > when prompted. > > Also check background tasks, killing any you don't recognize > and if there are doubts about malware infection, scan the > system. We need more info about what else is malfunctional > on the system, in rare cases you might have just came upon > an Explorer bug but the system otherwise works ok. > > Check Event Viewer and any other logs that seem created or > updated to coincide to the time of the problem. > > Did you recently install XP's Service Pack 3? If so, did > the problem seem to start soon thereafter? > > Also check the hard drive with the manufacturer's utilities, > available from the respective website. I have written about > hardware tests because it is a hardware newsgroup, but it > may easily be a windows and/or software problem better > handled in a Windows XP-centric newsgroup, though it would > be prudent to check memory before scanning the hard drive > with either chkdsk or manufacturer utility to greatly reduce > the potential for it finding fantom errors that don't really > exist. A very long (to me) shopping list! I will print out your instructions and use them as backup actions when more such troules arise. Thanks, Angelo Campanella | ||||||||||||||||
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> I just had a crazy event, likely repeated in the past without my
>recognition.
>
> I routinely enter XP via the Administraor auto login at startup (I am
>the big cahuna; I'm the only user!). Anyway, I often use Windows
>Explorer to do basic directory searching. This last time, repeated
>clicks on my Exporer icon brought naught. After 1/2 hour of desparate
>jabbing, I logged of all in sight to shut down ad start from scratch.
>When along comes some things also to shut down including a dude called
>"proxy desktop" (say what???".
>
> So then I resatrted and found my dozens of requests for Explorer to be
>nicely posted all over like wallpaper. WHAT'S GOING ON. XP has a
>no-sense sense of humor.
>
> Please explain "proxy desjktop" to this single one-cylinder user!
>
> Angelo Campanella