Well...I've been having problems with Windows Explorer taking a few minutes to actually display items or to finish loading or something. When I start WinExp, the window is blank, then the "not responding" window frame shows up, eventually it finishes.
In an attempt to troubleshoot this mess, I found this entry in the Audit section of the Event Viewer...there are over 80 entries (I tried counting, but there are too many. They start at 9:54:02 and end at 9:58:52 which is 'about' how long it took explorer to get over itself.)
"Code integrity determined that the image hash of a file is not valid. The file could be corrupt due to unauthorized modification or the invalid hash could indicate a potential disk device error.
File Name: \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\System32\wbload.dll"
WindowBlinds info:
Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 3.4
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 3.4
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.4 (build 129 x86 - Vista Edition)
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Dell E198WFP(Digital)) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS
Wblind.dll 2009/03/24 12:59:20
Wbsrv.dll 2009/03/24 16:03:02
Wbconfig.exe 2009/02/10 17:28:20
Wbload.exe 2008/03/30 12:27:14
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 11:54:07
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:21
Wbload.dll 2007/11/04 17:50:28
Screen.exe 2008/06/13 11:24:09
The "About" screen is reporting this version as 6.4 (build 129 x86 - Vista Edition)
I actually thought that IconPackager was the culprit, it still could be, there are issues reported in that section of the forums, but I though I would pass this along.
Thanks,
David