Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Run Windows Explorer in its own process. Avoid Total Explorer Crash

This will further secure your windows explorer from crash though not a great idea if short on memory.
Open registry by going to START-RUN and entering regedit. Navigate to
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] . In
this look for value of "SeparateProcess". If available set its value to 1 and if not (which could be the
case ) then add a DWORD key by the name "SeparateProcess" and set its value to 1.
If you would rather prefer not to change registry settings , you can get similar results by following
steps mentioned below
Click on "Start" Menu
Clcik "My Computer"
Click on "Tools" Menu
Click "Folder Options"
Check "Lauch folder windows in separate process"
Stability would be more because each Folder window will start in separate process and will not cause
system to halt in case one or more of such processes stop responding. Although it is supposed to
provide better stability but may be at the cost of performance.
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