Vanishing Task Bar and Menubars

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XTerminator

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Hi
A friend of mine having a comp with the specs as below:
P3 533MHZ
128MB DDR RAM
20 GB HDD
OS: Win2k with SP4
Anti-Virus: AVG(Updated till last night)
Spyware Detection & Prevention S/W: Spybot S&D (Updated last night) and Adaware SE 1.06 SE(Updated Last night)

Has a problem with his comp wherein, the Taskbar, Menubars etc disappear whenever he tries to open My Computer or quits after closing his media player (Winamp, Windows Media Player, Foobar etc.). He is also unable to play Videos etc on his comp.
Each time he clicks on shut down or even starts the comp for that matter, the Taskbar and Menubars take about 10 mins to showup.

After each vanishing act, the stuff takes about 5 mins to appear with little or no activity of the HDD sometimes and with a lot of HDD activity rest of the time. Even pressing Ctrl+Atl+Del has no effect.

He just formatted his HDD (2 partitions - Both formatted yest), did a clean install of Win2k and all service packs till SP4 and also installed all his drivers, scanned using AVG and Spybot S&D and Adaware SE with nothing found.

The problem of the Taskbar and Menubars still exists. Any clue as to what might be causing this problem???
PS: He has a monitor which is about 4 yrs old. (The system is old...but he doesnt want to get a new one atm. Kindly help with the above config itself if possible.)

Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.
 
first ask him to run sfc/scannow.

if that does not help, try running this vbscript to fix, only thing is it's for xp, but i think it should run fine on win2k.
 
Thats the explorer process crshing...Might sound funny, but Does he have Divx/xvid avi's on his machine?

I had exactly the same problem, and the fix lied with tweaking a few registry settings taht instruct exploret to quit playing around with Avi's by trying to obtain details of the files...

If he indeed has Avi's on the machine, 99% the problem is due to this....

If needed, I can find out the regedit enties and post em from home later today
 
superczar said:
Thats the explorer process crshing...Might sound funny, but Does he have Divx/xvid avi's on his machine?
I had exactly the same problem, and the fix lied with tweaking a few registry settings taht instruct exploret to quit playing around with Avi's by trying to obtain details of the files...
If he indeed has Avi's on the machine, 99% the problem is due to this....
If needed, I can find out the regedit enties and post em from home later today
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I think he was trying to play Video Files......will ask about the DivX or XviD formats.

And, will also ask him to try out those links.

Edit: its a formatted hdd...with no players etc.
 
yea...and theres no DivX player installed on it yet...asked him to check out those links...should be coming here sometime and checking this thread connecting through his cell or something.

Could it possibly be a h/w problem?
 
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