Explorer.exe crashes when trying to Search
Wednesday, July 27, 2005 at 5:29 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by moah7
(2 messages posted)
Hi everyone...here's my problem and I need some serious help. When I try searching
for files in WinXP, explorer.exe always crashes and I can't figure out a way to fix
it. And it doesn't matter if I search by the start menu or open up a directory and
try using the search button at the top. Here's what I've done to try and fix it but
to no avail...
1. I've tried running sfc /scannow to scan all system files and dlls to replace them
if they were corrupt or missing
2. Reinstalling the Search Assistant by right clicking on the srchasst.inf file in
the WINNT directory
3. Changing the dog to something else hoping that maybe it's the character that's
causing the problem
4. Changing the video acceleration settings for the video card
5. I've also reinstalled McAfee as I heard that this could be a probably cause
All five methods don't work and I'm loosing my wits end with this problem. Help would
be greatly appreciated
On Monday, July 11, 2005 at 12:45 am, DrWho wrote:
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>I want to thank you all for helping me to solve a problem that I have had for months.
>That is of course when doing a thumbnail view in Explorer it crashes hard. When
the
>crash happen Microsoft online crash analysis stated that I had the TrojanDownloader:Win32/Delf.FNVirus.
>I spent months wasting my time with their wrong analysis. It turned out to be the
>FFDSHOW DirectShow decoding filter. Once I removed it and reinstalled the latest
>version all problems were solved, and this it my new favorite research and resource
>site for Windows issues.
>
>Thanks to all who help out here.
>
>Dr. Who
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