Explorer displays folders, blinks, then can't see folders for 10 seconds...

The last month or so, when I open up Windows Explorer, half the time I will get the folder to open up (My DOcuments or any of its sub-directories)--but after a split second of seeing my files in the folder, they all disappear (from view--not from the hard drive). They might take 5 seconds to re-appear--or they might not re-appear at all until I shut down explorer and then re-try.

This has never happened to me before. Any suggestions?

 

I read the article. I did find in my right-click menu two options that I never use (browse with Xnview and Browse with FastStone--both of these graphics programs--only FastStone is actually installed right now).

After installing ShelExView, I looked in the list but didn't see either one there.

OK--I see that page you linked to says to disable all non-system extensions. Not sure how to do this. Almost all were for Windows, made by Microsoft, regardless of the Type column.

Any suggestions?

 

Pete, yes, I disabled a few (that I don't think I ever see) for Open Office by clicking that red button.

My question was how to sort according to MS and non-MS, but I see now that I can sort by Company and disable them that way.

I did install an Explorer utility that allows me to sort sub-directories by size of teh folder. I'm gonna disable that one and see what happens. I forgot all about this one.

 

You know I think that did it. I'll wait another week and then uninstall that darned thing. At the time I wanted to find out which folders were the largest, and XP wouldn't let me see. I found a few SPs and other such downloads that way. But I sure don't need that utility if its gonna goof up explorer, that's for sure.

Pete, thanks for the link to ShellExView. I do believe that did the trick.