[wxpython-users] wx.TaskBarIcon multiplying on explorer.exe crash

[Mike Driscoll]

Tim,
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">On Wed, 
> 30 Apr 2008 15:51:35 -0500 (CDT), Mike Driscoll 
> <mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us> wrote:
>> This program runs exclusively on Windows XP SP2 or SP3.
>>
>> So, here's the issue. From time to time, explorer.exe locks up and 
>> needs to be killed. Upon killing and restarting it from the Task 
>> Manager, my envelope icon will multiply itself for each unread email 
>> I have.
>
> I am veering off the topic here, and I apologize for that, but I would 
> like to explore this statement.
>
> I write drivers for a living.  I sit at my keyboard continuously, 9 or 
> 10 hours a day, every day.  My main development machine is a busy 
> place, with dual monitors, a 9-screen virtual desktop, a thousand 
> emails a day, Firefox running a bunch of tabs all the time, 8 or 10 
> command shells, editors, Putty sessions, development environments, 
> Office, strange diagnostic applications, experimental drivers, etc.
>
> And yet, in the 6 years I have been running XP, I can count the number 
> of times I've had to restart Explorer on one hand, with fingers left 
> over.  What is it you are doing that causes Explorer to go wacko?
>
I think it's been caused lately due to some networking issues we've been 
experiencing here at work. Basically, Samba goes down and our mapped 
drives go bonkers. Explorer tries to connect to something that it cannot 
connect to and sometimes needs to be restarted.

I work for the local government and one of our offices uses some State 
software. My boss discovered that one of the services it installs can 
cause explorer to misbehave too, so we no longer let it start on startup.

As far as I can tell, it has absolutely nothing to do with any of my 
Python programs, but I could be mistaken.

Mike