Microsoft released an update for Windows 7 today (Tuesday, April 27, 2010): KB980408:
The April 2010 stability and reliability update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is available.
The update fixes, among other things:
Windows Explorer may stop responding for 30 seconds when a file or a directory is created or renamed after certain applications are installed.
I'm not experiencing it on my own Windows 7 machine, but two colleagues at work were experiencing the problem. I would really like to know what applications were causing problems.
Microsoft will never call out the misbehaving applications. I want to know what software I should be ridiculing and insulting (and avoiding in the future).
Did anyone who was experiencing this problem isolate the applications?
Start
and type inReliability History
look when the crash happened and right click it andView Technical Details
that information might helpMicrosoft will never call out the misbehaving applications
This goes both ways. Sometimes 3rd party apps expose genuine bugs in the core implementation, yet MS would phrase the fix description as to obliquely blame it on some app that did in fact follow the published APIs, but was just off the beaten path.