re: One way to crash explorer.exe
Thursday, February 19, 2004 at 6:31 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by William
(4 messages posted)
This is from the original author of the post, and I wish to say that I was wrong.
It turned out that another program, which has now been fixed, was what crashed explorer.exe
whenever I right-clicked on a corrupted zip file. Therefore, I wish to extend apologies,
as well as ask the moderators for this post to be removed.
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.
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