I would also concur with Scott that Explorer both run more stably when you’re not running other crap in their memory space. Thanks, Scott, for pointing me in the right direction. Guess what? Explorer hasn’t disappeared on me for days. TamperIE by Bayden Systems – cool program, but probably less well-tested than the other two.

IeCaptureBho for Google Desktop Search – guessing those guys know what they’re doing too. Rather than adopting a scorched earth policy, I decided to start disabling the browser helper objects. COmeaHelper Object for Omea Reader (by JetBrains) – guessing those guys know what they’re doing. Given Scott’s suspicions above about something inproc with IE, I decided to start there. I was guessing that it wasn’t spyware or malware because I’m careful about what I install on my box and I also run as a non-admin. Windows Explorer just started to disappear for 5-10 seconds and then reappear.

Coincidentally in the past week or so, I recently had the same problem start to happen. Scott Hanselman recently blogged about how Internet Explorer was spontaneously disappearing on him. If you want to understand the breadth of technologies and when you should use which – come to this session. Get a handle on the core use-case for each of these technologies, check out hello-world demos, and see it all happen inside Visual Studio.

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