Explorer locks-up when I open "My Network Places" for the second time 1

[mmez]

Hi all,
yesterday I decided to reinstall my PC from scratch. I installed Windows XP Pro with SP 1a, latest version of drivers and every critical/windows update.
Everything worked flawlessly except for one thing. After every login I can open "My Network Places" just for one time.
The first time I open it I can see my Residential Gateway Device (UPnP) and every shared folder on the other PCs, but when I try to doubleclick on "My Network Places" icon again, cursor changes to "Working in Background" (arrow + hourglass) for a while and nothing happens.
Then, when I log off, Windows says that an instance of explorer.exe is not responding and I've to terminate it.

BTW: I made the same installation 3 times (from scratch every time... it took the whole day...) but I always had the same behaviour.

Any idea?

Thanx in advance.

 

[bcastner]

1. Disable the search for remote scheduled tasks:

Open the registry editor.

Go to

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion
/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace

Export this key (in order to back it up) and then delete the key called

{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} (Task Scheduler).

Close the registry.


2. Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services
Find "Web Client"
Stop the service.
Set its startup type to "Disabled"