KB980408: Fix for Explorer freezing: does anyone know what apps cause it?

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Published on 2010-04-28T00:03:30Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 0:14 UTC
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Microsoft released an update for Windows 7 today: 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 avoid in the future.

Did anyone who was experiencing this problem isolate the applications?

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