Windows 2000 Pro
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
Abit KR7A-133R MoBo
MSI GeForce TI 4600 128MB (SoftQuadroed to Quadro4 980 XGL)
Corsair PC 2700 XMS 512MB
Maxtor 40GB HDD
D-Link DFE-530TX+ PCI Adapter

This is by far the most bizzare thing I've encountered in Win2k!!!
At first, Houdini works fine. Than ,out of nowhere I'm starting to get this error.
Every time I restart or shutdown Windows, a dialog box appears saying
that “explorer.exe” doesn't respond and I have to force the shutdown
by pressing on “End Now” button. And that's when Houdini stops working!
Everything else seems to be working and only Houdini is being affected.
When I try to start Houdini, only the splash screen and in the lower right corner of the screen Houdini Console appear for a sec and that's it.
Can't start the Lisence Manager ither.
I thought maybe one of the programs that I've installed lately screwes up
something therefore, I reinstalled Windows couple of times allready but every time, this waky beheviour would take place without any relation to any installed program. Every time, the last program I've installed would be
a different one.
Also, I've tried to just reinstall Houdini and it helps but only for a couple of runs. I'm able to start it once or twice and than it breaks again.
Did anyone run across something like this in the past?
I'm frustrated! :evil:
Heeeelp!