re: One way to crash explorer.exe Sunday, February 1, 2004 at 10:36 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Aaron (46 messages posted) thanks for the tip On Sunday, February 1, 2004 at 9:57 pm, Yun William Yu wrote: >I have a comment about How >do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes: > >I've noticed that one way to almost certainly crash the Explorer is to right-click >a corrupted or invalid zip file. One can just name about any file to *.zip, and >as long as the file is invalid, when one right clicks on it, Explorer will crash. > One way to prevent this crash is to remove the built-in zip fuctionality by the >method shown at the following link, http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article03-202 >, but that of course means that one must have another handler for zip files, for >which there are many on the Internet, some listed below. > > Winzip, WinRAR, and PKZip are all shareware. 7-zip, ZipGenius, IZArc, FilZip, >and Ultimate Zip are some free alternatives. Hope that this helps someone. Written in response to: One way to crash explorer.exe (William: Sunday, February 1, 2004 at 9:57 pm) Responses to this message: re: One way to crash explorer.exe Izarc (Gerard: Thursday, June 17, 2004 at 12:39 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] One way to crash explorer.exe (William: Sun, Feb 1, 2004, 9:57 pm) re: One way to crash explorer.exe (Aaron: Sun, Feb 1, 2004, 10:36 pm) re: One way to crash explorer.exe Izarc (Gerard: Thu, Jun 17, 2004, 12:39 pm) re: One way to crash explorer.exe (William: Thu, Feb 19, 2004, 6:31 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum