Subject: Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View -> Launch folder windows in
a separate process
windows xp pro sp3
The option as subject selected.
More than one of windows explorer windows are open.
One hangs up.
Task Manager says for this window "not responding".
But not for remaining win explorer windows.
User forces closing the task manually - using task manager.
This leads to the fact that all open windows explorer windows are
being closed.
WHAT then the option "Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View -> Launch
folder windows in a separate process" actually FOR ?
While that option is being displayed, if you right click on the word Launch,
and click "What's This?", you get this message:
"Specifies that each folder is opened in a separate part of memory. When you
open each folder in a separate part of memory, the stability of Windows can
be increased. However, your computer's performance might decrease slightly."
How much memory does the computer have? Obviously the "performance" of
Explorer is decreased too much on your system with that option.
Start> Help> Search term: open each folder in a separate part of memory
That topic has this note: "When you open each folder window in a separate
part of memory, the stability of Windows can be increased. However, this
process uses more memory, and may cause your computer to run more slowly."
To close one explorer window that is not responding, it is necessary to
close explorer.exe and restart it, which causes all explorer windows to
close.
Is it possible that you are only looking for a way to have more than one
folder window open at a time?
Folder Options> General> Open each folder in its own window
The What's This for that option says: "Specifies that the contents of each
folder open in a new window. The previous folder content still appears in a
different window, so you can switch between the windows."
Note: You can use ALT+TAB to toggle between 2 folder windows, or select
other tasks. Drag and Drop works with that key combination too. Start to
"drag" (left click and hold mouse button) a file from one folder, Alt+Tab
with other hand to switch folders, and drop (release mouse button) where you
want it in the second folder. (People without the full use of both hands can
drag an item from one folder, move the pointer onto the other folder's icon
on the taskbar for one half second until the other folder opens, and then
drop it where you like in the second folder.)
FWIW. --Richard
