Reply To: Vista Windows Explorer Freezing Up

hope everyone had a meaningfull slichos.

the subject has changed slightly from the original post, so I would like to re-state, and re-elaborate my question

I am running (preloaded) windows vista basic on an acer laptop with a 1.8 ghz processer, 1.5 gig of ram, the max. amount of virtual ram that it would let me set, and with all extra processes and services turned off.

However, when I try to, for example, delete or copy a file on my desktop, or try to rename any folder/file on both my computer and my desktop, that explorer window freezes up … but doesn’t seem to affect anything else. Anyone got any ideas?

Also, in task manager, my processer always seems to be operating at 100% … this doesn’t make sense … can anyone make heads or tales of this?