Explorer.exe not shutting down automatically when using WindowFX?

January 21, 2004 10:06 AM from

As much as I love WinFX, it's annoying to have to force explorer.exe closed in order to shut down. If I uninstall it, then shutdown is fine - any ideas what could be causing this? Thanks...

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Reply #1 January 22, 2004 10:51 AM from

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Anyone...?

Reply #2 March 3, 2004 4:27 AM from

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I have this problem too, under Windows 2000 (though it sometimes happens in XP too). Surely someone else must have encountered this? Do the guys at Stardock know? In know for a fact that this did not happen in 1.x version.

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Reply #3 March 3, 2004 5:22 AM from

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My shutdown sometime acts like a reboot, does that count

Reply #4 March 4, 2004 5:17 AM from

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It's possible I suppose. It is quite an anoying bug actually. Messes up an otherwise tidy setup as far as I'm concerned.

Reply #5 March 4, 2004 8:25 AM from

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I seem to have noticed that the problem only occurs when I set WinFX 2.2 to load at startup, but this does not happen everytime. Try it both ways, manually and automatically and see what happens.

Reply #6 March 6, 2004 6:09 AM from

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There's no improvemnet for me in starting it manually. Every time I shut down the computer (W2K) Explorer hangs.

Reply #7 March 6, 2004 8:13 AM from

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Doesn't seem to matter how I set it now, it hangs I.E. after running for several days.
Shutting off WinFX altogether, problem dissapears.
I am using XP Home.

Reply #8 March 7, 2004 9:23 PM from

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I initially posted this in the wrong thread!

I think I have this problem solved now. I downloaded an app called Quick Shutdown which forces a shutdown of all apps. It won't let explorer hang. I set hot keys Ctrl+Shift+S for shutdown and Ctrl+Shift+R for restart. Works a treat!

Reply #9 May 5, 2004 7:01 PM from

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Now I definitely have the correct solution to this problem.

Start - Run - Regedit
Navigate to the following Registry key:
HKEY CURRENT USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Double click on the AutoEndTasks entry and replace the 0 with a 1 in the Value data text box

I've done this and no more problem.

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