re: Explorer.exe crashes Friday, September 26, 2003 at 8:54 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ben Thorne (4 messages posted) I found a solution to this problem. It is a problem with Photoshop. I have version 7 but it sounds like 6 also does this. See link below for the fix that worked for me: http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_winxp&message.id=53588 On Friday, September 19, 2003 at 1:26 pm, Trond wrote: >Hi again. >I suspect it has something to do with big hard drives. >I have a RAID motherboard, configured with RAID 0 striping to increase performance, >have 2 100GB IDE disks which are striped into one big one of ~180 GB. I'm using a >"Promise 200 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Drive" driver, all seen as C: >I have discovered that if I share my files and access them from another (XP) computer, >I can browse the files without any crashes!! >After learning that, then tried to access the files from my local machine but through >my network places instead of C:. I then learned that crashes did still happen when >I change folders rapidly, but did occur so often as when I access through C: >I observe this strange, very slow, updating of the icons in the file list when I >work locally, but when I access the files from my other computer, the icon update >is immediate. This might just be because of some load sharing. > >So, current status: No problem if I access from another computer. >Still no patch from Microsoft as I know of. > >I could add that it is not only Explorer.exe that crashes, if I access the directries >from Word of some picture editor, I get a crash in the file.read dialogue. Therefore, >I believe the problem is in some common file access DLL, but that DLL code is not >executed when files are accessed through the network. > >This is all I know at the moment. > Regards > Trond > Written in response to: re: Explorer.exe crashes (Trond: Friday, September 19, 2003 at 1:26 pm) Responses to this message: re: Explorer.exe crashes (Trond: Friday, September 26, 2003 at 11:34 am) re: Explorer.exe crashes (smersh: Sunday, May 29, 2005 at 2:20 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Explorer.exe crashes (George: Wed, Aug 20, 2003, 5:18 pm) re: Explorer.exe crashes (jcw: Wed, Aug 20, 2003, 9:32 pm) re: Explorer.exe crashes (gartz: Wed, Aug 20, 2003, 10:22 pm) re: Explorer.exe crashes (Guillaume: Sat, Aug 30, 2003, 2:27 am) re: Explorer.exe crashes (Trond: Wed, Sep 3, 2003, 2:36 pm) re: Explorer.exe crashes (AF2443A8D1: Fri, Sep 5, 2003, 6:47 am) cidaemon [the memory could not be ''read''] (Colin Howarth: Thu, Feb 12, 2004, 3:11 am) re: cidaemon [the memory could not 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