One way to crash explorer.exe
Sunday, February 1, 2004 at 9:57 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by William
(4 messages posted)
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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