

Repeat this a few dozen times and check your system resources. Close them (using ALT-F4 on the keyboard is faster). To reproduce this behavior on an affected system, just select a bunch of file folders somewhere and open them all at once. Curious I tested this on numerous other Windows 95 systems and discovered the exact same thing. I quickly switched back to version 4.72 and all was well again. I tracked it down to the common control library version 5.80 (comctl32.dll) that some program had installed. A while back I noticed my system resources would keep dropping after opening and closing lots of file folders and I would eventually have to reboot because of it.

Windows 95 may not run Microsoft's latest application software, but many people including myself still use it.
