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After killing the Explorer I started a shell (Taskmanager -> New Task -> cmd) to regain control and to be able to start some programs. First thing to do was a system file scan (sfc /scannow) — but as you mght have guessed that didn’t find any problems. Next stop on my way to getting the machine back to work was the Windows System Restore function that is available from the control panel (Shell -> control) or by starting from the original Vista-DVD. I went back four restore points — that killed my graphics driver, but the Explorer.…argh!

Every six months the german computer magazine “c’t” has some kind of security CD add-on with a Linux that boots directly from CD and some virus scanners that can also scan Windows’ NTFS drives. My computer had enough time during the night for scanning… and found nothing!

The usual steps didn’t work, so let’s fire up Firefox a ask the web. I really found several postings about endlessly crashing Explorers on Vista and those where produced by some malware. For those ugly things SpyBot is my tool of choice, but it also didn’t find anything.

I further searched the web and tried several things out, but wasn’t successful and really got frustrated, as it took several days and my computer wasn’t really useable during that time.

What I never noticed was the leftover part of the aborted download on my desktop! And that finally was the solution. After removing the file (Shell -> cd /Users//Desktop -> del ) and restarting the explorer (Shell -> explorer) everything worked fine again (except my graphics driver…).

A really can’t understand why Vista can’t handle this more nicely.