Comments on: Solutions to Taskbar Hangs or Freezes in Windows XP

By: xPi

xPi — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:51:00 +0000

it is a bad idea to disable Background Intelligent Transfer Service.

windows update and automatic update requires this service which performs the actual download of updates for windows

By: HThomas

HThomas — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:00:35 +0000

If the Taskbar hangs for few seconds and there is a frequent file system activity in:

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader

(usually C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader)

then maybe the cause is BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service).

By: Ran

Ran — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:07:32 +0000

i dont know if this will work some PPl say its a virus and you need a good anti virus T_T im really confused what to do..

my mother was using this PC last night then when i opened this at the morning this problem occured… i dont seem to understand what is happening to my PC….

im trying this solutions now…

By: MKDerb

MKDerb — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:46:11 +0000

Thanks Man It Helped me sooo much

MKDerb

By: Ruan

Ruan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:06:21 +0000

Also try disabling services you don’t need.

svchost is service host, which hosts all the services.
The more instances there are running, the more services you are using. Going to start>run and typing services.msc will take you to some type of windows service manager. Some are totally useless while some are needed in certain cases. eg. Telephony is useless when you have no dial-up type of connection, and Remote Registry is even more useless unless you are using Remote Assistance which will not need to use the registry in 80% of cases.

Keep safe, and don’t use more than 1 antivirus.

I am having a similar problem to the freezing taskbar, when I try using certain shortcuts then explorer.exe freezes then I have to restart it just to encounter the same problem. Hopefully a reboot will solve it.

By: Mei

Mei — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:10:35 +0000

Well I have a similar problem with the taskbar and explorer being frozen, but it isn’t on startup. If I leave the laptop on idle and I come back after 10 – 20 minutes explorer and the taskbar are frozen. I can’t access the task manager for some odd reason and the only thing I can do is manually shut it down. This has only been recent as in 2 days now this has been happening.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:57:15 +0000

My symptom was that the task bar would freeze after logging in from screen saver mode (I have a secure system and I have to enter a password each time I want to exit screen saver mode). The task bar would freeze for up to two minutes and then everything would work normally. I suspected the security system, but that was not the problem as it turned out. I found a suggested solution at another site and it worked for me too: remove the language bar from the taskbar! That’s it! I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 running Windows XP with 1Gb of memory and 2.8GHz Pentium 4.