re: Explorer.exe crashes
Saturday, April 22, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by psy
(1 messages posted)
My problem turned out to be Divx.
About a week ago (after installing the latest divx) explorer.exe started to crash
when navigating to a directory with avi files.
I solved that problem myself. I unisntalled divx, went to oldversion.com and got
an older version, which ran up until a night or two ago, and the problem started
again. I tried the reg hack. I disabled the thumbnail viewer, nothing worked.
So I uninstalled divx again and hit a major snag. The uninstall program would hang
on regsvc32 /s /u divxdec.ax.
I tried to manually remove the service, and the run prompt hanged. After a reboot,
I went to the windows/system32 directory, took all the files named divx*.* and put
them into a temp folder, and re-rebooted. On logon, I uninstalled divx without error,
and the explorer.exe crash was gone.
Now all that's left is for me to find a working divx codec ;)
Thanks for all the help everyone.
On Wednesday, April 6, 2005 at 7:08 am, Marty wrote:
>Right click causes an error and crashes Explorer.exe after installing Windows XP
>SP2?
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>When you right-click on a Desktop icon or a folder, the pointer changes to a hourglass,
>Taskbar disappears and after about 30 seconds the screen comes back to normal and
>still no right click options are available. This behavior may be seen after installing
>Windows XP Service Pack 2. However, it's not a problem caused by Service Pack 2,
>but an incompatible Context-menu handler from DivX.
>
>Update 9/8/2004 - DivX software and Windows XP SP2
>
>DivX 5.2.1, DivX Pro 5.2.1, and Dr DivX 1.0.6 have been released. These versions
>are compatible with Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and can be downloaded from www.divx.com.
>Please follow the guidelines below only if you wish to use older versions of these
>products on Windows XP SP2.
>
>RESOLUTION
>(for older versions of DivX software)
>
>Eliminate the context-menu handler from the registry, or disable it temporarily
using
>ShellExView tool.
>
>Click Start, Run and type REGEDIT. Navigate to:
>
>HKCR \ * \ shellex \ ContextMenuHandlers \ EncodeDivXExt
>
>Backup the key to a REG file, and delete EncodeDivXExt key
>
>Close Registry Editor and restart Windows
>
>Using ShellExView utility
>
>See this page for more information on using ShellExView utility (see Method 2 in
>that page). In ShellExView, the entry might read as EncodeDivXExt Module. More information
>from DivX.com Forums, regarding DivX and the problems with Windows XP Service Pack
>2
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