Increase Ram. 256 min. 512 even better. Or you can get carried away and up to 1 to 2 gigs.

 

mouinla,

While that's a very small amount of memory for an XP system, that should not cause the Windows Explorer to crash and restart. That's what the symptom suggests is happening.

Check in the System and Application event logs for any errors logged at the time everything disappears and reappears. You can easily access the Event Viewer using "Start/Run eventvwr.msc".

Have you scanned your system for viruses with an up to date version of your antivirus product's definitions?

Jim

Mouinla,

Right-click My Computer and select Properties.
Switch to Advanced tab, and click the first (under Performance subsection) Settings button.
Performance Options window will open.
Select Adjust For Best Performance option, and click OK button.

Right-click Desktop, and select Properties.
Select Windows Classic from Theme dropdown.
Switch to Appearance tab, and click Effects button.
Uncheck all options.
Click OK twice to save changes.
Restart computer.

You may also need to disable Active Desktop (push F1 key, and search for instructions)

Hope this helps.

I have the same problem BUT only with the recycle bin. If I open the recycle bin and then click empy it the icons do that, but if I empty the recycle bin without opening it, no problem. Anybody have any suggestions?  I have a XPS system with 512 of ram.  Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks