Hello, Have you made sure that the latest device drivers for the Intel chipset and the latest keyboard, mouse and power drivers from Lenovo are loaded on your ThinkPad T43?
For the 'My Documents' (et al) directories, have you checked to see the permissions on them are correct for your profile (e.g., your account or group that you are a member of has full rights). I have seen slow shutdowns occur because of problems with video, power, RAID, backup agent and network management programs failing to shut down properly, as well as with anti-virus drivers and services. Making sure all of the software is up to date can help, too. If you are using any tools to customize the Windows shell (skinning and Windows Explorer replacements, for example) try uninstalling them. Oh, if you made a custom installation of Microsoft Windows XP using one of the programs like nLite or XPlite, try using the original ThinkPad's installation of Windows XP, instead. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 07:19 PM 8/1/2009, you wrote:
Message: 1 Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 15:43:17 -0400 From: John Toliver <[email protected]> Subject: [Thinkpad] Windows Explorer very sluggish or stops responding To: thinkpad <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I have had my new Thinkpad T43 for about a month now. First thing I did was wipe the drive and fresh installed it with my own personal config. Works for the most part the way I want it to however occaisionally when I click on the start menu to open My computer nothing happens. Same for My documents, in fact all the "My*" folders. I go to process explorer and it will show one instance of explorer.exe running and then when I click on one of the start menu shortcuts, I see another instance of explorer start then exit, with no user notice other than that. Something else strange is that when I shut down my system, I always get a program that has stopped responding which holds up shutdown. Until I have time to troubleshoot it I have been doing "shutdown -f -r -t 0" at the run box. I'm confident it's not a virus or trojan (Avast is updated) and Spybot is quiet unless I bother it. I discovered if I type explorer at the run box it works but like I said none of the icons work. they start and then exit. Weird but... So the way I have been fixing it has been opening process explorer and killing all instances of explorer.exe which of course takes down the desktop environment all together and then starting a new instance of explorer from the run command. This works until the next time. It's getting to be a pain. Any ideas would be appreciated. -- I've discovered the key to success is to never give up. You either learn the right way, or you run out of ways to do it wrong. A win/win situation!
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