Comments on: End Program – explorer.exe-2 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/end-program-explorerexe-2/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:10:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: binoodas1234 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/end-program-explorerexe-2/#comment-45576 binoodas1234 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:33:48 +0000 #comment-45576 Thanks to all for reply. This needs a couple of days observation as I have replaced explorer.exe. I will reply after that.

Thanks again.

]]> By: stevesz http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/end-program-explorerexe-2/#comment-45577 stevesz Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:43:35 +0000 #comment-45577 Why are you shutting down your server every night? When do you do backups of the data, run defrag. etc.?

As for th ehang of EXPLORER.EXE, what changed before this happened? Was th emachine updated? Did you add an application to the server, if you are serving applications? Windows may be trying to shut down EXPLORER.EXE before all the programs dependent upon it have completely exited.

If you have already replaced EXPLOERER.EXE as suggested by another reply, and it is still hanging, I’d start looking at it from this kind of angle.

Steve//

]]> By: sanjay79 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/end-program-explorerexe-2/#comment-45578 sanjay79 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:29:28 +0000 #comment-45578 You could try deleting Explorer.Exe in the windows/winnt folder. This also happens when Explorer.exe itself gets corrupted.

The process is :

Start the server in the Command Prompt mode.
Go to the folder
Delete the file
Restart windows.

It will automatically recreate the Explorer.exe.

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