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This is about my roomie's Windows XP Home, SP3. Dual Core cpu - Dell Vostro 1500 (....ish) laptop system. 2 gb ram, 32 bit
He's had this odd problem as of late where, when using Windows Explorer, a bunch of the folders in the left-hand pane will spontaneously "rename" themselves to all call themselves Desktop. They still work as usual, and only the display name changes -- if he closes WE and reopens it, they're back to normal. This only appears to happen when he moves files from the Desktop to another location via WE. He will try and get a screencap next time it happens. It's nothing major, I just thought it could be indicative of a more serious problem.
Further notes -- AV and spybot installed and updated, regular scans. He uses BT and at least one other such program -- could hard drive degredation be a factor? Also, he uses an addon for FireFox that allows him to keep an obscene number of tabs all open at once (he recently pared them down from 520 to around 300 when he realized that FF alone was eating up a gigabyte of RAM all by itself); I suspect that it may just be the system RAM getting overwhelmed. I can't switch out the RAM, no spare chips, and his is a 1x2gb dimm configuration.
Any ideas?
He's had this odd problem as of late where, when using Windows Explorer, a bunch of the folders in the left-hand pane will spontaneously "rename" themselves to all call themselves Desktop. They still work as usual, and only the display name changes -- if he closes WE and reopens it, they're back to normal. This only appears to happen when he moves files from the Desktop to another location via WE. He will try and get a screencap next time it happens. It's nothing major, I just thought it could be indicative of a more serious problem.
Further notes -- AV and spybot installed and updated, regular scans. He uses BT and at least one other such program -- could hard drive degredation be a factor? Also, he uses an addon for FireFox that allows him to keep an obscene number of tabs all open at once (he recently pared them down from 520 to around 300 when he realized that FF alone was eating up a gigabyte of RAM all by itself); I suspect that it may just be the system RAM getting overwhelmed. I can't switch out the RAM, no spare chips, and his is a 1x2gb dimm configuration.
Any ideas?
I AM the evil bastard!
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