by Mark Gibbs

Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Windows Explorer

Opinion

Oct 30, 20071 min

So, why does Windows Explorer occasionally go to sleep when you launch it? On my Windows XP PC I’ll often launch a new instance and watch Explorer just sit there apparently doing nothing! I thought the problem was due to Explorer trying to handle network drives mapped as local drives but even when I’ve removed all mapped drives the problem still exists. Any ideas?

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by Mark Gibbs

Mark Gibbs is an author, journalist, and man of mystery. His writing for Network World is widely considered to be vastly underpaid. For more than 30 years, Gibbs has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books about networking, information technology, and the social and political issues surrounding them. His complete bio can be found at http://gibbs.com/mgbio

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