08-13-2009, 04:15 AM -
Progress report for XP and Vista
On 25-07-2009 I made an AHK script to move the mouse back and forth from Recent Items icon to Start icon every couple of seconds but this has never triggered the crash even when I ran it overnight on both XP and Vista machines (about 16000 separate activations of Recent Items pop-up!). Deleted items were present in the list.
On 26-07-2009 I cleared the Recent Items folder on both machines. (In XP I used right-click on Start, then Properties, Start Menu tab/ Customise/Clear. In Vista I right-clicked on Recent Items in the Start menu and selected Clear List).
The first crash since then with XP was on 11-08-2009, and first with Vista was 13-08-2009. Meanwhile I've been using both machines daily but the main machine is the one running XP.
In the 13-08-2009 Vista crash the frozen Recent Items popup contains only 5 items. As before I had to restart Explorer.exe to recover from the freeze and there seem to be no relevant entries in the Vista Event Logs.
However the frozen window looks like two windows one on top of the other and slightly displaced (see screenshot). Could this be a clue?
On 25-07-2009 I made an AHK script to move the mouse back and forth from Recent Items icon to Start icon every couple of seconds but this has never triggered the crash even when I ran it overnight on both XP and Vista machines (about 16000 separate activations of Recent Items pop-up!). Deleted items were present in the list.
On 26-07-2009 I cleared the Recent Items folder on both machines. (In XP I used right-click on Start, then Properties, Start Menu tab/ Customise/Clear. In Vista I right-clicked on Recent Items in the Start menu and selected Clear List).
The first crash since then with XP was on 11-08-2009, and first with Vista was 13-08-2009. Meanwhile I've been using both machines daily but the main machine is the one running XP.
In the 13-08-2009 Vista crash the frozen Recent Items popup contains only 5 items. As before I had to restart Explorer.exe to recover from the freeze and there seem to be no relevant entries in the Vista Event Logs.
However the frozen window looks like two windows one on top of the other and slightly displaced (see screenshot). Could this be a clue?