re: SysFader will not fade away
Friday, March 4, 2005 at 3:03 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Carl
(1 messages posted)
Anyone,
My Microsoft Windows XP Home platform is in a state where any invocation of Windows
Explorer results in a fatal error in an error dialog window that appears with the
following text:
SysFader: explorer.exe - Application Error
The instruction at "0x10040065" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could
not be written.
...
Other symptoms included:
other applications fail
after failure, the Microsoft Error Reporting interface appears (and I select send),
the desktop "freezes" and after a long wait, the task bar, system trays and desktop
shortcuts are slowly "redisplayed"
longer boot times
I've unsuccessfully applied many techniques that I've used in the past or that are
commonly posted in related threads, which included:
I applied all the latest operating system and application patches and service packs,
which had no impact on the problem.
I ran a virus detection & removal technology with the latest definition files and
engine. To be specific, I ran:
McAfee VirusScan Pro 2005 Version 9.0
with the latest definitions and several issues were identified. I tried to delete,
quarantine and clean the flagged files with McAfee VirusScan Pro 2005 Version 9.0
and a few were removed but for the majority of the files, it failed on all attempts.
It had issues with problematic files as identified and named in the GUI that did
not exist when it attempted to "cleanse", e.g. it identified C:\WINDOWS\explorer.scf:jzdeh
as one of the problematic files during the scan but when I attempted a delete or
quarantine or clean ", no file of that name existed.
I scanned with "spyware" detection and removal tools with the latest definition files
and engine. I used:
Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware Beta
Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition 1.05
Webroot Spy Sweeper 3.5
PepiMK Software Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.3
and each addressed other less significant issues but did not solve the problem I
identified earlier.
I executed the latest:
Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool
that resulted in no change.
I reran all the previously mentioned tools in "Safe Mode", which made no difference.
I've disabled all "Transition Effects", which did not solve my problem.
I looked at some of the descriptions of similar problems listed at sites like:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=24363&page=2
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/t1020125925
but all the recommendations did not work or the files or configuration settings did
not exist in this situation.
I manually removed the explorer.scf. This worked only for explorer.exe issues and
only temporarily. It allowed me to invoke Windows Explorer but after several hours
of use the problem reappeared.
I manually removed the explorer.scf since I didn't recognize it and it seemed to
be "wrapping" the real application. This worked. It allowed me to invoke Windows
Explorer but after several hours of use the problem reappeared.
Does anyone have any suggestions short of reformatting and reinstallation?
Thank you in advance for your help.
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