Vista - Create New folder, move file, delete file. Explorer Freeze

Basically the title. Almost every single time i move ANY file or delete any file, the window im in freezes and the progress bar freezes. Now when i create a new folder the window im in freezes also, but i'd say its only 50% of the time. The temporary solution i found was to go to the task bar, end explorer, and restart it using run. Now when i check back on that folder, whatever action I did (ie delete file) does do what i wanted, its just the freezing. I'm looking for a permanent solution to this and any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Hi erod49, try looking in your error logs. You have given a good discription of the problem. Tel us your system specs as well.

To get into your error logs,

Left Click on Start Menu.
Right click on Computer and choose manage.
Click on the event viewer.
You now have loads of options to try and pin down what is happening.
Expand the error tab.
Look for things in the last 24 hours.

Other things to look for are updates, has an update caused this. Has your computer autoupdated any of the motherboard drivers.
Have you tried to restore the computer before the error started or has it always been like that.

I have seen video card drivers do this to machines, even in XP.

Has anybody had any luck in fixing this error? I have this problem as well, but it doesn't seem to be related to graphics card driver as I've didn't update this before the error occured.

I too have this problem, it doesn't always happen, but it does most of the time and the only way to stop it is with task manager, I have the details of the problem here
Product
Windows Explorer
Problem
Stopped responding and was closed
Date
13/10/2007 12:31
Status
Report Sent
Description
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: AppTermFailureEvent
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057
Files that help describe the problem (some files may no longer be available)
Explorer.EXE.atk.kdmp
Version.txt
Extra information about the problem
Server information: 38acfa24-7f99-434e-ac79-4a4807477c16

Hi,
On the desktop context menu, does the icon folder appears in "New" ?

Hi all,

You might give both of these tutorial a run to see if they can help fix the problem.

1. Cannot Rename or Move a File or Folder in Vista Fix

2. New Folder

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I went through the pain of working out which service was causing the problem. In my case stopping the Windows Search service fixed the issue. There is also a new preview version of Windows Search which might be worth try.

Louistaub,

Thank you for the feedback on the solution that you found to work for you. I hope the preview will work better for you, but remember it's a beta that might have problems with it to.

Shawn

Yep, i had some compatibility problems with IE8 and reported some bugs to MS