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
>
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