windows explorer stopped working under Dexpot...

[bjunker]

I didn't find a post like this in the forum--forgive me if this has already been asked, and let me know where I can read about it.

Running Win 7, Home Premium, SP1, and Dexpot 1.6.3, build 2167 with DexControl and SevenDex. Running 4 desktops, on an Asus latop with a 2.70GHz Intel i7 and 8Gb of memory.

Every so often (certainly at least once in every 4 hours or so of operation), Windows Explorer stops working, and restarts. After the restart, all desktop icons are gone from every desktop except the one I happened to be in when Windows Explorer restarts.

How can I fix this, so that (a) Windows Explorer doesn't experience restarts; or at least (b) I can get icons back on all the desktops after a Windows Explorer restart?

thanks in advance,

-BJ

[Patrick]

How can I fix this, so that (a) Windows Explorer doesn't experience restarts;

Is there any pattern to the crashes? Do they occur in certain situations or randomly? Any error messages or other technical details?

or at least (b) I can get icons back on all the desktops after a Windows Explorer restart?

Save the attached file to your Dexpot installation folder and restart Dexpot. This will also be fixed in the next version.

mywechsel.ini

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[bjunker]

:dex:

How can I fix this, so that (a) Windows Explorer doesn't experience restarts;

Is there any pattern to the crashes? Do they occur in certain situations or randomly? Any error messages or other technical details?

I didn't notice any patterns, but I will try to be more vigilant. Typical sessions for me involve several explorer windows, gnu emacs, MikTeX, R (usually idling), several chrome windows, firefox...

or at least (b) I can get icons back on all the desktops after a Windows Explorer restart?

Save the attached file to your Dexpot installation folder and restart Dexpot. This will also be fixed in the next version.

mywechsel.ini

Thanks! I installed, restarted, then manually stopped and restarted explorer.exe, and it seems to have worked.

all best,

-BJ