We came across a fix to rename explorer to explorer2.exe and update the registry with regedit to point to the new explorer2.exe. This worked and proved there was nothing corrupt or missing but it wasn’t an ideal solution as it was quite long winded.

The problem started to appear with more and more PC’s on our network, this is no longer a coincidence. The problem is happening on different service packs of SP so we know its not an SP related issue. After doing a bit of searching around I found something called FixO. After running this and rebooting the PC explorer was now working great and it kept explorer as same name etc. You can get it here: FixO - Repair explorer.exe

Still this was a long way around script but at least it can be scripted into the login script. Anyway one of my work colleges found another solution, which seems to cure the problem but no idea why. It’s a simple one-line registry edit.

Open notepad and put the following in:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\explorer.exe]
"Debugger"=-

Save the file as a reg file. Then run this file in regedit, this simply removes the offending registry key that is causing problems. If you want you can just get the file here: Reg Fix - Fix No Desktop

So we still don’t know what’s causing this but we do have a temporary solution.

JavaScript Code:

function sameHeight(divs) // Bring in an array of your divs
{
  var highest = 0;
  var heighttu = 0;
  for(i = 0; i < divs.length; i++) // Loop through the divs
  {
    // Check to see if this div is the highest?
    if(document.getElementById(divs[i]).offsetHeight > highest)
    {
      // Yes its the highest so set the highest value to this div's height
      highest = document.getElementById(divs[i]).offsetHeight;
    }
  }
  // Loop through divs and set their hieght all the same
  for(i = 0; i < divs.length; i++)
  {
    document.getElementById(divs[i]).style.height = highest+"px";
  }
  // now get offset hieght again and we may found we have gone higher this is because of padding
  if(document.getElementById(divs[0]).offsetHeight > highest)
  {
    // correct the height
    highest = highest - (document.getElementById(divs[0]).offsetHeight - highest);
    // Correct divs
    for(i = 0; i < divs.length; i++)
    {
      document.getElementById(divs[i]).style.height = highest+"px";
    }
  }
}

Hurricane Season

We got this: Epcot - Our Future LOL.

Well the only answer I could come up with is that I say thank you for the comfortable journey and getting me to my destination safely and on time. I think if they do those things then its only fair to say thank you when alighting from the bus.

Well now whenever I leave the bus I take a moment to think does this bus driver deserve a thank you? Well sure enough I don’t say thank you as often as I use to.

First thing I did was look online for answers and sure enough there were solutions but looking at them they seemed over complicated so I decided to write my own solution.

Javascript Code:

function sameHeight(divs) // Bring in an array of your divs
{
var highest = 0;
for(i = 0; i < divs.length; i++) // Loop through the divs
{
document.getElementById(divs[i]).style.height = "auto";
// Check to see if this div is the highest?
if(document.getElementById(divs[i]).offsetHeight > highest)
{
// Yes its the highest so set the highest value to this div's height
highest = document.getElementById(divs[i]).offsetHeight;
}
}
// Loop through all divs again
for(i = 0; i < divs.length; i++)
{
// Set all divs height to the highest value
document.getElementById(divs[i]).style.height = highest+"px";
}
}

Then to run this code:

window.onload=function()
{
	sameHeight(new Array('block_01','block_02','block_03'));
}

Simply pass an array of your divs to the function. Easy peasy….

Just an extra word of warning… Be aware of using padding on the blocks you pass to this function. If the paddings are different in each block then they may not end up being the same height. Although you could modify the function to check for the use of padding and alter the heights accordingly.