Occasionally Explorer hangs (or simply takes too long) e.g. when doing a
"Search" or opening "My Network Places" (which - if certain devices are
not present - can take forever...).

If one then closes that window the "root"-Explorer dies, i.e. the
desktop is gone as well...

Can't one force Explorer to start such long-running tasks in its own
process (i.e. to fork them off as seperate processes), such that when
one kills any of those one only kills that particular window/process and
not the desktop, too.

Michael

Thu, 3 Nov 2005 14:30:18 +0100 from Michael Moser <michael-
nospam.moser@nospam.freesurf.ch>:
> Occasionally Explorer hangs (or simply takes too long) e.g. when doing a
> "Search" or opening "My Network Places" (which - if certain devices are
> not present - can take forever...).
>
> If one then closes that window the "root"-Explorer dies, i.e. the
> desktop is gone as well...
>
> Can't one force Explorer to start such long-running tasks in its own
> process (i.e. to fork them off as seperate processes), such that when
> one kills any of those one only kills that particular window/process and
> not the desktop, too.

Tools >> Folder Options >> View >>
Launch folder windows in a separate process

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/

Hm, that already IS set, but still certain windows apparently are NOT
started in an own process (or then THEIR crash somehow also tears down
the parent process...).

"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:MPG.1dd3e705d1377022989b70@news.individual.ne t...
> ...
> Tools >> Folder Options >> View >>
> Launch folder windows in a separate process

Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:12:05 +0100 from Michael Moser <michael-
nospam.moser@nospam.freesurf.ch>:

> "Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1dd3e705d1377022989b70@news.individual.ne t...
> > ...
> > Tools >> Folder Options >> View >>
> > Launch folder windows in a separate process

> Hm, that already IS set, but still certain windows apparently are NOT
> started in an own process (or then THEIR crash somehow also tears down
> the parent process...).

Sorry, I got nothin' else. Hopefully someone else will chime in.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting.
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