re: Blue screen when accessing .jpg files
Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11819 messages posted)
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On Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 4:14 pm, dferguson wrote:
>I'm on a Compaq Evo N610c laptop, running Win2K. It gives me a blue screen crash
>whenever it gets anywhere near a .jpg file. For example:
>Using Windows Explorer to browse to a folder holding .jpg files;
>Using MSIE or Mozilla to browse the hard drive, when I get to a folder containing
>a .jpg file;
>Trying to import a .jpg file into a MS Word document;
>Using Kodak Imaging to open or browse to a .jpg file;
>Virus scan returns no problems. Defragged, disk checked, still no joy.
>Checked my file associations, there was nothing for a .jpg file, so I created an
>association. Then went to find a .jpg file and crashed again.
>The blue screen is very quick. Haven't been able to get the error code. But when
>I get the blue screen, the computer never shuts down - I have to force it by holding
>the power switch, then start all over again.
>Any clues?
>Thanks...
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