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Explorer.exe crashes
Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 5:18 pm Posted by George
(161 messages posted)
Hello...Decided to come and ask the experts...I am using Windows XP Professional
and I have an annoyance. When my computer is...I sometimes get a message saying that
my explorer.exe has crashed...thus asking me to send an error report etc. I get this
many times...what happens after that is only the desktop apperas and then everything
goes back to normal. If windows media 9.0 is playing and I close it the music still
plays. Also...i sometimes loose some taskbar icons...Just what is this explorer.exe
crash and how can it be fixed. thanks.
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 9:32 pm Posted by jcw
(5092 messages posted)
If you want help, better post all the language of the error messages you receive
(including in the Event Viewer).
On Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 5:18 pm, George wrote:
>Hello...Decided to come and ask the experts...I am using Windows XP Professional
>and I have an annoyance. When my computer is...I sometimes get a message saying
that
>my explorer.exe has crashed...thus asking me to send an error report etc. I get
this
>many times...what happens after that is only the desktop apperas and then everything
>goes back to normal. If windows media 9.0 is playing and I close it the music still
>plays. Also...i sometimes loose some taskbar icons...Just what is this explorer.exe
>crash and how can it be fixed. thanks.
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 10:22 pm Posted by gartz
(3 messages posted)
Make sure windows is fully up-to-date, explorer will crash, even more without service
pack 1 installed.
This effect seems to be on a timer, XP without SP1 will work fine one week the next
it will crash on average 6 time an hour. Its not you, just microsoft.
On Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 5:18 pm, George wrote:
>Hello...Decided to come and ask the experts...I am using Windows XP Professional
>and I have an annoyance. When my computer is...I sometimes get a message saying
that
>my explorer.exe has crashed...thus asking me to send an error report etc. I get
this
>many times...what happens after that is only the desktop apperas and then everything
>goes back to normal. If windows media 9.0 is playing and I close it the music still
>plays. Also...i sometimes loose some taskbar icons...Just what is this explorer.exe
>crash and how can it be fixed. thanks.
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Saturday, August 30, 2003 at 2:27 am Posted by Guillaume
(1 messages posted)
hello,
i have exactly the same problem, have u been able to solve it ?
My winXP pro is fully upgrade as well as all the tools i use, so it's not a problem
of old version as some have suggest.
Regards,
Guillaume
On Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 5:18 pm, George wrote:
>Hello...Decided to come and ask the experts...I am using Windows XP Professional
>and I have an annoyance. When my computer is...I sometimes get a message saying
that
>my explorer.exe has crashed...thus asking me to send an error report etc. I get
this
>many times...what happens after that is only the desktop apperas and then everything
>goes back to normal. If windows media 9.0 is playing and I close it the music still
>plays. Also...i sometimes loose some taskbar icons...Just what is this explorer.exe
>crash and how can it be fixed. thanks.
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Wednesday, September 3, 2003 at 2:36 pm Posted by Trond
(3 messages posted)
Hi.
I have a similar problem. Using a completely updated WinXP system.
I have a 180 GB disk, all on the C: drive. Approx. 25GB space left, lots of files.
Explorer.exe crashes each time I browse some specific directories. Esp. if I browse
some of my pictures (jpg), and say 20 jpg's are present in it. Then the program lists
the files without icons in the right pane, then slowly draw the small jpg icons per
file, after drawing 1 or two icons, it crashes. I have send error reprt to microsoft
many times, but still not seen any patch coming back, ha ha.
The application event log says:
Application popup: explorer.exe - Application Error : The instruction at "0x77f580db"
referenced memory at "0x00720065". The memory could not be "written".
regards,
trond
On Saturday, August 30, 2003 at 2:27 am, Guillaume wrote:
>hello,
> i have exactly the same problem, have u been able to solve it ?
> My winXP pro is fully upgrade as well as all the tools i use, so it's not a problem
>of old version as some have suggest.
>
>Regards,
>Guillaume
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Friday, September 5, 2003 at 6:47 am Posted by AF2443A8D1
(2 messages posted)
Trond's problem sounds very similar to mine. I've got a Dell Dimension
2350 running XP with an 80GB HD with 51% free space.
I ran into problems when I began copying WAV files from CD to my HD
[copying, not ripping]. I got abend errors, primarily like this:
cidaemon.exe Application Error
The instruction at "0x77f51ed3" referenced memory at "0xfffff8".
The memory could not by "read".
Click OK to terminate the program.
This is what cidaemon.exe is:
cidaemon - cidaemon.exe - Process Information
Process File: cidaemon or cidaemon.exe
Process Name: Microsoft Indexing Service
Description: The Indexing Service runs in the background
and catalogues files so that you can search for files
containing a specific text string
Common Errors: N/A
System Process: No
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/cidaemon/
Since I only search on file names, last night [9/4/03] I went to My
Computer -> right clicked on my HD [C-drive] -> Properties -> General
Tab -> then clicked off "Allow indexing...fast file searching".
I then went to the subfolder in My Music that was giving me fits and
checked the files there [played them, right clicked on properties,
moused over for info, etc.]. After 2 minutes, Explorer.exe abended:
Exploere.exe Application Error
The instruction at "0x77f52a84" referenced memory at "0x000000".
The memory could not by "written".
Click OK to terminate the program.
So, I ran a scandisk last night. This morning, [9/5] everything appeared
to be OK. I went to the subfolder in My Music that was giving me fits and
checked the files there. I checked other folders. No abends.
I don't know if this fixed it for sure or not, but I did take a restore
point in the hopes that it did.
BTW, besides scandisk, does anyone know of any utility that will check to
see if files or folders are corrupted.
Any insight on any of this would be appreciated!
On Wednesday, September 3, 2003 at 2:36 pm, Trond wrote:
>Hi.
>I have a similar problem. Using a completely updated WinXP system.
>I have a 180 GB disk, all on the C: drive. Approx. 25GB space left, lots of files.
>Explorer.exe crashes each time I browse some specific directories. Esp. if I browse
>some of my pictures (jpg), and say 20 jpg's are present in it. Then the program
lists
>the files without icons in the right pane, then slowly draw the small jpg icons
per
>file, after drawing 1 or two icons, it crashes. I have send error reprt to microsoft
>many times, but still not seen any patch coming back, ha ha.
>
>
>
>The application event log says:
>Application popup: explorer.exe - Application Error : The instruction at "0x77f580db"
>referenced memory at "0x00720065". The memory could not be "written".
>
>
>regards,
>trond
>
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Friday, September 19, 2003 at 12:20 pm Posted by Allan White
(1 messages posted)
I also have the same exact problem. I upgraded to Win XP pro, added a large HD with
several thousands of web site graphics (small graphics used in web site production).
Win XP's Windows Explorer quits as I explore some of the larger, 5 or more levels
deep folders with large qtys of .gif and .jpg files.
It reports: "The instruction at "0x77f585c0" referenced memory at "0x00008000" The
memory could not be "written"
Have you been able to SOLVE this problem on your machine?
A quick update email on the topic will be greatly apreciated.
Thanks!
Allan White
On Wednesday, September 3, 2003 at 2:36 pm, Trond wrote:
>Hi.
>I have a similar problem. Using a completely updated WinXP system.
>I have a 180 GB disk, all on the C: drive. Approx. 25GB space left, lots of files.
>Explorer.exe crashes each time I browse some specific directories. Esp. if I browse
>some of my pictures (jpg), and say 20 jpg's are present in it. Then the program
lists
>the files without icons in the right pane, then slowly draw the small jpg icons
per
>file, after drawing 1 or two icons, it crashes. I have send error reprt to microsoft
>many times, but still not seen any patch coming back, ha ha.
>
>
>
>The application event log says:
>Application popup: explorer.exe - Application Error : The instruction at "0x77f580db"
>referenced memory at "0x00720065". The memory could not be "written".
>
>
>regards,
>trond
>
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Friday, September 19, 2003 at 1:26 pm Posted by Trond
(3 messages posted)
Hi again.
I suspect it has something to do with big hard drives.
I have a RAID motherboard, configured with RAID 0 striping to increase performance,
have 2 100GB IDE disks which are striped into one big one of ~180 GB. I'm using a
"Promise 200 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Drive" driver, all seen as C:
I have discovered that if I share my files and access them from another (XP) computer,
I can browse the files without any crashes!!
After learning that, then tried to access the files from my local machine but through
my network places instead of C:. I then learned that crashes did still happen when
I change folders rapidly, but did occur so often as when I access through C:
I observe this strange, very slow, updating of the icons in the file list when I
work locally, but when I access the files from my other computer, the icon update
is immediate. This might just be because of some load sharing.
So, current status: No problem if I access from another computer.
Still no patch from Microsoft as I know of.
I could add that it is not only Explorer.exe that crashes, if I access the directries
from Word of some picture editor, I get a crash in the file.read dialogue. Therefore,
I believe the problem is in some common file access DLL, but that DLL code is not
executed when files are accessed through the network.
This is all I know at the moment.
Regards
Trond
On Friday, September 19, 2003 at 12:20 pm, Allan White wrote:
>I also have the same exact problem. I upgraded to Win XP pro, added a large HD with
>several thousands of web site graphics (small graphics used in web site production).
>
>Win XP's Windows Explorer quits as I explore some of the larger, 5 or more levels
>deep folders with large qtys of .gif and .jpg files.
>
>It reports: "The instruction at "0x77f585c0" referenced memory at "0x00008000" The
>memory could not be "written"
>
>Have you been able to SOLVE this problem on your machine?
>
>A quick update email on the topic will be greatly apreciated.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Allan White
>
>
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Thursday, September 25, 2003 at 2:54 pm Posted by Ben Thorne
(4 messages posted)
I'm having a similar problem on a new Laptop with a Toshiba 60gig hard drive running
XP Pro. I don't have Raid though. My problem is with big folders of jpeg files
in a sub folder of "My Documents" folder. I get the error message "The Instruction
at 0x77f580db reference memory at 0x0057005c. Memory could not be written."
Let me know if you get your problem fixed or figure out other ways around it. This
is causing me some headaches!!!!
On Friday, September 19, 2003 at 1:26 pm, Trond wrote:
>Hi again.
>I suspect it has something to do with big hard drives.
>I have a RAID motherboard, configured with RAID 0 striping to increase performance,
>have 2 100GB IDE disks which are striped into one big one of ~180 GB. I'm using
a
>"Promise 200 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Drive" driver, all seen as C:
>I have discovered that if I share my files and access them from another (XP) computer,
>I can browse the files without any crashes!!
>After learning that, then tried to access the files from my local machine but through
>my network places instead of C:. I then learned that crashes did still happen when
>I change folders rapidly, but did occur so often as when I access through C:
>I observe this strange, very slow, updating of the icons in the file list when I
>work locally, but when I access the files from my other computer, the icon update
>is immediate. This might just be because of some load sharing.
>
>So, current status: No problem if I access from another computer.
>Still no patch from Microsoft as I know of.
>
>I could add that it is not only Explorer.exe that crashes, if I access the directries
>from Word of some picture editor, I get a crash in the file.read dialogue. Therefore,
>I believe the problem is in some common file access DLL, but that DLL code is not
>executed when files are accessed through the network.
>
>This is all I know at the moment.
> Regards
> Trond
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Thursday, September 25, 2003 at 5:02 pm Posted by Ben Thorne
(4 messages posted)
A quick follow up:
I put my large "Jpg File Folders" directly in the "My Pictures" folder and this seems
to work; no more crashes so far.
I had had these JPG file folders buried in sub-sub-sub-folders. I think the problem
is that Explorer is having problems with the virtual memory/cache/thumbnails if there
are more than about 20 Jpg files in 1 folder that is a sub-sub-sub-folder. This
doesn't really solve the problem, but it helps work around it.
On Thursday, September 25, 2003 at 2:54 pm, Ben Thorne wrote:
>I'm having a similar problem on a new Laptop with a Toshiba 60gig hard drive running
>XP Pro. I don't have Raid though. My problem is with big folders of jpeg files
>in a sub folder of "My Documents" folder. I get the error message "The Instruction
>at 0x77f580db reference memory at 0x0057005c. Memory could not be written."
>
>Let me know if you get your problem fixed or figure out other ways around it. This
>is causing me some headaches!!!!
>
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Friday, September 26, 2003 at 7:06 am Posted by Mike Manilla
(1 messages posted)
Mine is only slightly different. I get Function address 0x77f580db caused a protection
fault. (exception code 0xc0000005). When trying to get to the printer properties.
On Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 5:18 pm, George wrote:
>Hello...Decided to come and ask the experts...I am using Windows XP Professional
>and I have an annoyance. When my computer is...I sometimes get a message saying
that
>my explorer.exe has crashed...thus asking me to send an error report etc. I get
this
>many times...what happens after that is only the desktop apperas and then everything
>goes back to normal. If windows media 9.0 is playing and I close it the music still
>plays. Also...i sometimes loose some taskbar icons...Just what is this explorer.exe
>crash and how can it be fixed. thanks.
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Friday, September 26, 2003 at 8:54 am Posted by Ben Thorne
(4 messages posted)
I found a solution to this problem. It is a problem with Photoshop. I have version
7 but it sounds like 6 also does this.
See link below for the fix that worked for me:
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_winxp&message.id=53588
On Friday, September 19, 2003 at 1:26 pm, Trond wrote:
>Hi again.
>I suspect it has something to do with big hard drives.
>I have a RAID motherboard, configured with RAID 0 striping to increase performance,
>have 2 100GB IDE disks which are striped into one big one of ~180 GB. I'm using
a
>"Promise 200 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Drive" driver, all seen as C:
>I have discovered that if I share my files and access them from another (XP) computer,
>I can browse the files without any crashes!!
>After learning that, then tried to access the files from my local machine but through
>my network places instead of C:. I then learned that crashes did still happen when
>I change folders rapidly, but did occur so often as when I access through C:
>I observe this strange, very slow, updating of the icons in the file list when I
>work locally, but when I access the files from my other computer, the icon update
>is immediate. This might just be because of some load sharing.
>
>So, current status: No problem if I access from another computer.
>Still no patch from Microsoft as I know of.
>
>I could add that it is not only Explorer.exe that crashes, if I access the directries
>from Word of some picture editor, I get a crash in the file.read dialogue. Therefore,
>I believe the problem is in some common file access DLL, but that DLL code is not
>executed when files are accessed through the network.
>
>This is all I know at the moment.
> Regards
> Trond
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Friday, September 26, 2003 at 11:34 am Posted by Trond
(3 messages posted)
Great, thanks, you're todays hero!
I removed Photoshop 7 and voila, all is well!!
Browsing my directories now and corresp. icon drawing is not immediate, compared
to a slow sad story with Photoshop installed.
On Friday, September 26, 2003 at 8:54 am, Ben Thorne wrote:
>I found a solution to this problem. It is a problem with Photoshop. I have version
>7 but it sounds like 6 also does this.
>See link below for the fix that worked for me:
>
>http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_winxp&message.id=53588
>
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Friday, September 26, 2003 at 12:18 pm Posted by Ben Thorne
(4 messages posted)
you can re-install Photoshop just don't make it the default program for opening Jpg
and Gif files (during the photoshop installation process, anyway). After Photshop
has been installed, you can go to the file types in "Folder Options" (under tools
at top of all folders) and make it so Photoshop opens Jpg and Gif files. I did this
and it seems to work fine.
Glad you got things working. I know I was pulling my hair out yesterday.
On Friday, September 26, 2003 at 11:34 am, Trond wrote:
>Great, thanks, you're todays hero!
>I removed Photoshop 7 and voila, all is well!!
>Browsing my directories now and corresp. icon drawing is not immediate, compared
>to a slow sad story with Photoshop installed.
>
>
>
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Wednesday, October 8, 2003 at 2:36 am Posted by Paul Hawkins
(1 messages posted)
My problem is slightly different in that the message I get reads "The instruction
at 0x77f580db referenced memory at 0x00620065. The memory could not be written.
I have an email in my outlook inbox which does NOT have an attachment. If I try to
open, move, delete or in any way interfere with this email, I get the above message
then Outlook closes. I am able to open all other emails and Outlook behaves normally
except for this one email.
Does anyone know how to remove this email without clicking on it. As it is the only
email now left in my inbox I'd like to delete it safely.
Thanks for your time.
Paul Hawkins
On Friday, September 26, 2003 at 7:06 am, Mike Manilla wrote:
>Mine is only slightly different. I get Function address 0x77f580db caused a protection
>fault. (exception code 0xc0000005). When trying to get to the printer properties.
>
>
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cidaemon [the memory could not be ''read'']
Thursday, February 12, 2004 at 3:11 am Posted by Colin Howarth
(1 messages posted)
I am receiving the same error as Irwin... however
It is only cidaemon that gives me this error message, it seems to happen very regularly
- presumably during cidaemon's catalogue generation...?
I have not experienced application or server crashes.
I am running 2000 server SP1 atm, but will update to SP4 when the office is next
empty. Anyone know if this, or anything else, will fix this issue?
Thx advance
On Friday, September 5, 2003 at 6:47 am, Irwin Richards wrote:
>Trond's problem sounds very similar to mine. I've got a Dell Dimension
>2350 running XP with an 80GB HD with 51% free space.
>
>I ran into problems when I began copying WAV files from CD to my HD
>[copying, not ripping]. I got abend errors, primarily like this:
>
> cidaemon.exe Application Error
>
> The instruction at "0x77f51ed3" referenced memory at "0xfffff8".
> The memory could not by "read".
>
> Click OK to terminate the program.
>
>This is what cidaemon.exe is:
>
> cidaemon - cidaemon.exe - Process Information
> Process File: cidaemon or cidaemon.exe
> Process Name: Microsoft Indexing Service
> Description: The Indexing Service runs in the background
> and catalogues files so that you can search for files
> containing a specific text string
> Common Errors: N/A
> System Process: No
> http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/cidaemon/
>
>Since I only search on file names, last night [9/4/03] I went to My
>
>Computer -> right clicked on my HD [C-drive] -> Properties -> General
>Tab -> then clicked off "Allow indexing...fast file searching".
>
>I then went to the subfolder in My Music that was giving me fits and
>checked the files there [played them, right clicked on properties,
>moused over for info, etc.]. After 2 minutes, Explorer.exe abended:
>
> Exploere.exe Application Error
>
> The instruction at "0x77f52a84" referenced memory at "0x000000".
> The memory could not by "written".
>
> Click OK to terminate the program.
>
>So, I ran a scandisk last night. This morning, [9/5] everything appeared
>
>to be OK. I went to the subfolder in My Music that was giving me fits and
>checked the files there. I checked other folders. No abends.
>
>I don't know if this fixed it for sure or not, but I did take a restore
>point in the hopes that it did.
>
>BTW, besides scandisk, does anyone know of any utility that will check to
>
>see if files or folders are corrupted.
>
>Any insight on any of this would be appreciated!
>
>
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re: cidaemon [the memory could not be ''read'']
Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 1:53 pm Posted by chris lord
(1 messages posted)
I had the same reported problem but with avi files. a solution seems to be to rename
the file extention to something random like ".111", and then I could open my folder
without any crashes. It must have been something to do with the way windows explorer
communicates with the assocated program to provided information about the file. So
if the extention is changed windows explorer cannot find a assocated program to find
information about the file.
But this doesnt provide a real solution; but it can stop a lot of flustration crashed.
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re: cidaemon [the memory could not be ''read'']
Monday, October 4, 2004 at 9:52 am Posted by Eamon
(1 messages posted)
More on this:
I have recently been getting this same error when using both Jpg files and AVI files.
Renaming the file works (you can rename the file through dos). But what is strange
is that it does not crash after it has been renamed back to its original name (do
this rename in explorer).
The only recent things I have done to my system is update to XP service pack 2 and
installed ACE Mega Codecs pack dashboard. I think this may be a codec issue. Also
I have got some new virus software (zone alarm with anti virus). This reported that
a JPG files had been infected with the ‘JPEG.MS04-028.exploit’ virus. This is a buffer
overrun virus that affects win 98 and below, but may be causing explorer to crash
(only guessing).
Anyway do a scan disk anyway just in case.
On Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 1:53 pm, chris lord wrote:
>
>I had the same reported problem but with avi files. a solution seems to be to rename
>the file extention to something random like ".111", and then I could open my folder
>without any crashes. It must have been something to do with the way windows explorer
>communicates with the assocated program to provided information about the file.
So
>if the extention is changed windows explorer cannot find a assocated program to
find
>information about the file.
>
>But this doesnt provide a real solution; but it can stop a lot of flustration crashed.
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Saturday, October 9, 2004 at 3:24 pm Posted by Kathy
(1 messages posted)
Just wanted to say thank you for the information on the way Photoshop can cause this
problem. I've been trying to track it down from various technical sites for weeks
now but it turned out the Photoshop was the gremlin in my works.
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explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Monday, October 11, 2004 at 2:26 pm Posted by Enipucrop
(3 messages posted)
I too had the problem with explorer.exe crashing when opening certain folders with
avi files. The Microsoft Media Player seems to be the problem?!?! I have an installation
of the "Classic Media Player". I opened the folder options/file types and assign
the avi file type to the classic media player. Problem seems to be solved. Hope this
helps anyone...
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re: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 11:44 am Posted by Enipucrop
(3 messages posted)
I was too happy too fast... this only solved the problem a few minutes. Back to square
one! drat :(
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 12:25 pm Posted by Enipucrop
(3 messages posted)
OK, I found this somewhere and it has fixed my problem:
===========
I had exactly the same problem until I came across this handy little registry hack.
Run regedit and find the following key :-
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
Delete the "Default" value then close. You should now be able to see .avi previews
almost instantly but without the crashes
==============
Hope it helps you too
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Friday, October 15, 2004 at 8:49 pm Posted by eekreek
(1 messages posted)
Thank you very much Enipucrop, that was exactly what i needed, do you think that
it has anything to do with installing and uninstalling codecs and codec packs which
change this registry key? Anyway, it doesn't really matter, it worked perfectly,
thanks again!
On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 12:25 pm, Enipucrop wrote:
>OK, I found this somewhere and it has fixed my problem:
>
>===========
>I had exactly the same problem until I came across this handy little registry hack.
>Run regedit and find the following key :-
>
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
>
>Delete the "Default" value then close. You should now be able to see .avi previews
>almost instantly but without the crashes
>==============
>
>Hope it helps you too
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 4:17 pm Posted by Chad Williams
(1 messages posted)
I have a problem with WE when I try to access any of my .AVI files I can't do anything
without a crash, I tried to delete the registry key like you said but it won't let
me, am I doing anything wrong?
On Friday, October 15, 2004 at 8:49 pm, eekreek wrote:
>Thank you very much Enipucrop, that was exactly what i needed, do you think that
>it has anything to do with installing and uninstalling codecs and codec packs which
>change this registry key? Anyway, it doesn't really matter, it worked perfectly,
>thanks again!
>
>
>
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 10:09 pm Posted by mark
(1 messages posted)
Did you ever figure out the permission?
On Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 4:17 pm, Chad Williams wrote:
>I have a problem with WE when I try to access any of my .AVI files I can't do anything
>without a crash, I tried to delete the registry key like you said but it won't let
>me, am I doing anything wrong?
>
>
>
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Saturday, November 13, 2004 at 1:00 am Posted by Doc
(1 messages posted)
I ran into similar problems that I managed to track down to 2 AVI files by moving
each AVI file to a temp directoy and trying to view the directory with explorer each
time until it crashed thus identifying the bad file. Simply renaming the file at
the command prompt solves the problem. It's strange that it only occurs to specific
AVI files and not all and I was not able to trace it down to any specific VISIBLE
character in the filename. I wonder if it's possible if a non-displayable character
might be attached to the filename or if the filename might be overloaded causing
a corruption on memory (simillar to worms attempt to overload a memory buffer to
allow access to a system) and that renaming it deletes the problem characters?
On Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 4:17 pm, Chad Williams wrote:
>I have a problem with WE when I try to access any of my .AVI files I can't do anything
>without a crash, I tried to delete the registry key like you said but it won't let
>me, am I doing anything wrong?
>
>
>
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Explorer.exe crashes
Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 2:57 am Posted by matti
(1 messages posted)
Hi,
I have a problem with my explorer too. When I click the partition where I have my
windows installed (It's on partition F) with a right mouse button, Windows Explorer
crashes. For other drives it doesn't do it. Can you give some advice, what might
be causing the problem? thanks for the great forum!
.matti
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 4:38 am Posted by Eric Winter
(1 messages posted)
Let me make a wild guess.
Have any of you, experiencing Windows Explorer crashes in Windows XP/SP1, Webroot
SpySweeper installed? If yes - hold on, I'll get back to you;
If no - continue reading.
Have any of you, experiencing Windows Explorer crashes
in Windows XP/SP1, a shortcut on their desktop with which they start Windows Explorer?
If yes - hold on, I'll get back to you;
If no - check EventViewer; you crashes are application related.
--Eric
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 9:54 am Posted by davesino
(3 messages posted)
Hi all.
I too have noticed that explorer.exe crashes when ever I right-click folders and
drives. I have systematically disabled one program/service at a time, and when I
disabled SpySweeper, explorer.exe no longer crashed. I then went into the options
of Webroots spysweeper, and disabled the 'Add Sweep for Spyware to Windows Explorer
Context Menu' option and retried right-clicking. Explorer.exe never crashes anymore,
and SpySweeper is still installed and running.
Hope this helps others...
Dave
On Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 4:38 am, Eric Winter wrote:
>Let me make a wild guess.
>Have any of you, experiencing Windows Explorer crashes in Windows XP/SP1, Webroot
>SpySweeper installed? If yes - hold on, I'll get back to you;
>If no - continue reading.
Have any of you, experiencing Windows Explorer
crashes
>in Windows XP/SP1, a shortcut on their desktop with which they start Windows Explorer?
>If yes - hold on, I'll get back to you;
>If no - check EventViewer; you crashes are application related.
>
>--Eric
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Monday, December 6, 2004 at 9:05 pm Posted by Steve Kay
(1 messages posted)
>Dave:I could kiss you, or send women or whatever you want. I've struggled with
the problem of win explorer XP crashing when I went to delete a directory for months
now. It absolutely is the spysweeper (mine is V3.0) adding to the windows explorer
context menu (1st item in the options). Thanks, I'll send an email to webroot
On Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 9:54 am, davesino wrote:
>Hi all.
>I too have noticed that explorer.exe crashes when ever I right-click folders and
>drives. I have systematically disabled one program/service at a time, and when I
>disabled SpySweeper, explorer.exe no longer crashed. I then went into the options
>of Webroots spysweeper, and disabled the 'Add Sweep for Spyware to Windows Explorer
>Context Menu' option and retried right-clicking. Explorer.exe never crashes anymore,
>and SpySweeper is still installed and running.
>Hope this helps others...
>Dave
>
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Tuesday, December 7, 2004 at 9:26 am Posted by davesino
(3 messages posted)
No Problem. This problem plagued me as well.
I finally got sick enough of it, that I just sat down for like 4 hours and started
eliminating different things one at a time.
Dave :-)
On Monday, December 6, 2004 at 9:05 pm, Steve Kay wrote:
>
>>Dave:I could kiss you, or send women or whatever you want. I've struggled with
>the problem of win explorer XP crashing when I went to delete a directory for months
>now. It absolutely is the spysweeper (mine is V3.0) adding to the windows explorer
>context menu (1st item in the options). Thanks, I'll send an email to webroot
>
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Friday, December 10, 2004 at 7:32 pm Posted by Dan
(1 messages posted)
Hi, I found the answer to this problem on another forum. It worked for me with the
.avi files.
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4911&pid=23532&st=0entry23532
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Thursday, December 23, 2004 at 9:45 am Posted by troutinoregon
(1 messages posted)
That was an answer to my prayers. I did a google search and found this page, seen
your solution and implemented it and instantly my troubles went away. Thank you very
very much Enipucrop!!!
On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 12:25 pm, Enipucrop wrote:
>OK, I found this somewhere and it has fixed my problem:
>
>===========
>I had exactly the same problem until I came across this handy little registry hack.
>Run regedit and find the following key :-
>
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
>
>Delete the "Default" value then close. You should now be able to see .avi previews
>almost instantly but without the crashes
>==============
>
>Hope it helps you too
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Saturday, January 1, 2005 at 5:22 am Posted by bhobbins
(1 messages posted)
Solves my issue with directories with large .avi files. I was consistently getting
Reference Memory Errors opening directories with large .avi files. This definitely
solves the problem. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 12:25 pm, Enipucrop wrote:
>OK, I found this somewhere and it has fixed my problem:
>
>===========
>I had exactly the same problem until I came across this handy little registry hack.
>Run regedit and find the following key :-
>
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
>
>Delete the "Default" value then close. You should now be able to see .avi previews
>almost instantly but without the crashes
>==============
>
>Hope it helps you too
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 9:12 pm Posted by John F Land
(1 messages posted)
I have the crash problem, but it's not related to AVI files or Photoshop or other
programs named here so far. Whenever I open Windows Explorer in ANY fashion, it crashes.
HOWEVER, the problem does NOT occur if I first right click on My Network Places and
select "Properties". Go figure. I'm running XP Pro Tablet edition, with SP2.
John Land
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Sunday, January 16, 2005 at 3:20 am Posted by Corey
(2 messages posted)
Unfortunately, I was not so lucky. I have been having a very similar problem with
.avi files crashing Windows Explorer whenever I so much as click on the file or try
to display them in thumbnail view. I have narrowed it down to a number of specific
files where the problem occurs, but I cannot figure out what is wrong with them.
Sadly, the regedit trick did not work for me. Any other suggestions from anybody?
Thanks!
Corey
On Thursday, December 23, 2004 at 9:45 am, troutinoregon wrote:
>That was an answer to my prayers. I did a google search and found this page, seen
>your solution and implemented it and instantly my troubles went away. Thank you
very
>very much Enipucrop!!!
>
>
>
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Monday, January 17, 2005 at 3:42 am Posted by Willem
(1 messages posted)
Hi, I had a explorer.exe error on some of my .avi files. I got the error whenever
I tried to play the file, check properties or tried to burn it in NERO. After some
browsing (this tread and many more) I came upon some suggestion of it being related
to a codec problem. I had recently installed SLD 1.5 Pro beta 6, I uninstalled it
and all troubled files played without any problems. I do think it's not the SLD codec
pack in particular, but just one of the codecs included. If you encountered the problem
after installing any oder codec pack, just uninstall and see what happens. I now
use SLD 1.5.3 and without problems.
Hopefully I could be of help for some of you out there... Greetings.
On Sunday, January 16, 2005 at 3:20 am, Corey wrote:
>Unfortunately, I was not so lucky. I have been having a very similar problem with
>.avi files crashing Windows Explorer whenever I so much as click on the file or
try
>to display them in thumbnail view. I have narrowed it down to a number of specific
>files where the problem occurs, but I cannot figure out what is wrong with them.
> Sadly, the regedit trick did not work for me. Any other suggestions from anybody?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Corey
>
>
>
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Monday, January 17, 2005 at 3:58 pm Posted by Corey
(2 messages posted)
Thanks for the response. I haven't installed any codec packs, but I'm thinking maybe
I should try it and see if by chance that will resolved my problem. Now I need to
learn how to install codec packs....
Thanks,
Corey
On Monday, January 17, 2005 at 3:42 am, Willem wrote:
>Hi, I had a explorer.exe error on some of my .avi files. I got the error whenever
>I tried to play the file, check properties or tried to burn it in NERO. After some
>browsing (this tread and many more) I came upon some suggestion of it being related
>to a codec problem. I had recently installed SLD 1.5 Pro beta 6, I uninstalled it
>and all troubled files played without any problems. I do think it's not the SLD
codec
>pack in particular, but just one of the codecs included. If you encountered the
problem
>after installing any oder codec pack, just uninstall and see what happens. I now
>use SLD 1.5.3 and without problems.
>Hopefully I could be of help for some of you out there... Greetings.
>
>
>
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 6:07 am Posted by yomguy
(1 messages posted)
Thanks Enipucrop !!
I've found an aswer to my explorer crashing pb ! GREAT, it works. But as I am never
satisfied when I don't understand where such bugs come from, I wonder which software
or files (pb appeared for me when I downloads avi files from peers...) could modify
this register key...
Why Norton Windoctor didn't see anything ?
Any idea ?
Regards,
Yomguy
On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 12:25 pm, Enipucrop wrote:
>OK, I found this somewhere and it has fixed my problem:
>
>===========
>I had exactly the same problem until I came across this handy little registry hack.
>Run regedit and find the following key :-
>
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
>
>Delete the "Default" value then close. You should now be able to see .avi previews
>almost instantly but without the crashes
>==============
>
>Hope it helps you too
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 at 8:29 am Posted by olsnappy
(1 messages posted)
Awesome job. I had they same problem I was getting frustrated with the same problem.
I will be fixing it when I go home today. windows has to many problems.:-) I thought
I had a bad virus. Scanned with spyware. bps spyware. Scanned with norton. and
panda. Did reg clean used registry mechanic. Reg Scrub and Error Nuker. Nothing
worked. I do remeber activating the feature as I had to disable Dr. Watson(useless
peice of garbage) as conflicts with Spysweeper. and then I turned on that feature.
Why does it crash explorer.exe though?
On Tuesday, December 7, 2004 at 9:26 am, davesino wrote:
>No Problem. This problem plagued me as well.
>I finally got sick enough of it, that I just sat down for like 4 hours and started
>eliminating different things one at a time.
>Dave :-)
>
>
>
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 2:37 am Posted by Gunnar Carlman
(1 messages posted)
Hi, I also had explorer craches when I browsed folders with AVI-files. I have several
AVI-players and i found out that more then one player had AVI as default association.
I changed that so no filetype was accosiated to more than one player .
Sometimes when you install a new player it makes itself the default player for all
files, without even telling you.
It seems to have solved the problem.
Gurra100
On Monday, January 17, 2005 at 3:42 am, Willem wrote:
>Hi, I had a explorer.exe error on some of my .avi files. I got the error whenever
>I tried to play the file, check properties or tried to burn it in NERO. After some
>browsing (this tread and many more) I came upon some suggestion of it being related
>to a codec problem. I had recently installed SLD 1.5 Pro beta 6, I uninstalled it
>and all troubled files played without any problems. I do think it's not the SLD
codec
>pack in particular, but just one of the codecs included. If you encountered the
problem
>after installing any oder codec pack, just uninstall and see what happens. I now
>use SLD 1.5.3 and without problems.
>Hopefully I could be of help for some of you out there... Greetings.
>
>
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 9:50 am Posted by davesino
(3 messages posted)
With this feature turned on, it would add the spysweeper option to the right-click
menu (which is part of the 'explorer.exe' shell). This feature was designed so the
user could right-click an item, and choose to scan for spyware etc.
On Tuesday, February 1, 2005 at 8:29 am, olsnappy wrote:
>Awesome job. I had they same problem I was getting frustrated with the same problem.
> I will be fixing it when I go home today. windows has to many problems.:-) I thought
>I had a bad virus. Scanned with spyware. bps spyware. Scanned with norton. and
>panda. Did reg clean used registry mechanic. Reg Scrub and Error Nuker. Nothing
>worked. I do remeber activating the feature as I had to disable Dr. Watson(useless
>peice of garbage) as conflicts with Spysweeper. and then I turned on that feature.
> Why does it crash explorer.exe though?
>
>
>
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 7:34 pm Posted by Christie
(42 messages posted)
I would just like to thank you for being a genius! I have recently gotten errors
when moving my cursor over .avi files. I have tried everything people suggested -
Registry Mechanic, Windows Updates, etc. Nothing has worked...until now. Deleting
that default setting in regedit worked like a charm! Thank you for being so great!!!
:-)
On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 12:25 pm, Enipucrop wrote:
>OK, I found this somewhere and it has fixed my problem:
>
>===========
>I had exactly the same problem until I came across this handy little registry hack.
>Run regedit and find the following key :-
>
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
>
>Delete the "Default" value then close. You should now be able to see .avi previews
>almost instantly but without the crashes
>==============
>
>Hope it helps you too
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 at 5:00 am Posted by miguel
(1 messages posted)
your the mo fo man bro!!!
i dont usually post on forums as a newbie so i apologise for my lack of involvement
in this, but, having found this site through searching "pictures make explorer crash"
i found the solution to this problem and have to big you all up!
LoveScreams,
TheBastards.
On Friday, September 26, 2003 at 12:18 pm, Ben Thorne wrote:
>you can re-install Photoshop just don't make it the default program for opening
Jpg
>and Gif files (during the photoshop installation process, anyway). After Photshop
>has been installed, you can go to the file types in "Folder Options" (under tools
>at top of all folders) and make it so Photoshop opens Jpg and Gif files. I did
this
>and it seems to work fine.
>
>Glad you got things working. I know I was pulling my hair out yesterday.
>
>
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Thursday, February 10, 2005 at 2:58 pm Posted by Dustin Gonzalez
(1 messages posted)
I too am having this problem with no apparent connection to any particular file type.
My problem occurs when i attempt to open any folder, however, using universal explorer
i have no problems at all. I just simply cannot open a folder/drive without explorer
crashing on me giving me the "instruction at 0x028cd065 referenced memory at 0x000000
the memory could not be written" the first set of numbers is different everytime,
but always ends in d065. i've run numerous spyware/virus checks and come up empty.
Any help would be appreciated, i really don't want to have to do a complete wipe.
On Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 9:12 pm, John F Land wrote:
>I have the crash problem, but it's not related to AVI files or Photoshop or other
>programs named here so far. Whenever I open Windows Explorer in ANY fashion, it
crashes.
>HOWEVER, the problem does NOT occur if I first right click on My Network Places
and
>select "Properties". Go figure. I'm running XP Pro Tablet edition, with SP2.
>
>John Land
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Friday, February 18, 2005 at 8:24 pm Posted by Yulsie
(2 messages posted)
I can't open My Computer or Control Panel without getting the "memory reference"
error. No particular file type causes the crash. Can I just replace explorer.exe
or should I reinstall Windows, then do SP2 again? I do have SpySweeper loaded.
I have spent hours and hours on this and used three different adware pkgs, deleted
malware references in the registry, etc. etc. I yearn for a simple step-by-step
solution. Also, can I tighten up my firewall parameters?
A buddy told me to use Firefox instead of IE - no Active X. I'm about to try it,
but I still need My Computer and Control Panel!
n Thursday, February 10, 2005 at 2:58 pm, Dustin Gonzalez wrote:
>I too am having this problem with no apparent connection to any particular file
type.
>
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Friday, February 18, 2005 at 8:48 pm Posted by Falcon
(13489 messages posted)
Please start a new thread
and describe your problem fully. Your issue is not related to this thread at all.
The Wereotter

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Alternate partial solution
Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 10:38 am Posted by Adam Senour
(1 messages posted)
Okay,
After having read this thread and trying the stuff in it, I discovered what I consider
to be a partial solution (since it is a band-aid, IMHO).
Photoshop isn't installed on this machine, as one poster indicated (although Illustrator
is...is this possibly it?), and the only two file types are Word docs and PDFs.
What I did notice is that the directory in question was 8 levels deep. And in this
case, the directory in question is on a server, whereas this is a client machine.
So...what I did was mapped a new drive to the sixth-level directory on the server
(level 1)/(level 2).../(level 6), and it has worked quite well.
However, I don't really like it for two reasons:
1) It's too easy to run out of network drive letters doing this.
2) While it isolates the specific issue as being long directory paths, it does not
actually solve said issue other than to possibly rename the paths.
I guess the reason I'm making this post is to provide some more information, insight,
and a band-aid to the problem in the hopes that someone can take what I've done and
turn it into a solution.
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re: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Saturday, February 26, 2005 at 6:57 pm Posted by Markus
(1 messages posted)
Enipucrop - you rock! Thanks a lot - that was the perfect solution!!!
One happy Texan.
On Monday, October 11, 2004 at 2:26 pm, Enipucrop wrote:
>I too had the problem with explorer.exe crashing when opening certain folders with
>avi files. The Microsoft Media Player seems to be the problem?!?! I have an installation
>of the "Classic Media Player". I opened the folder options/file types and assign
>the avi file type to the classic media player. Problem seems to be solved. Hope
this
>helps anyone...
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Sunday, February 27, 2005 at 12:11 pm Posted by Cammie
(1 messages posted)
OMG!! Thank u thank u thank u thank u! This right-click-windows explorer thing has
been bugging me forever. I did what you said, and it's all better!! THANK U!! I actually
just un-installed SpySweeper because I have other programs that get rid of spyware
and the problem is solved.
On Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 9:54 am, davesino wrote:
>Hi all.
>I too have noticed that explorer.exe crashes when ever I right-click folders and
>drives. I have systematically disabled one program/service at a time, and when I
>disabled SpySweeper, explorer.exe no longer crashed. I then went into the options
>of Webroots spysweeper, and disabled the 'Add Sweep for Spyware to Windows Explorer
>Context Menu' option and retried right-clicking. Explorer.exe never crashes anymore,
>and SpySweeper is still installed and running.
>Hope this helps others...
>Dave
>
>
>
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at 1:00 pm Posted by vikas
(2 messages posted)
Hi, I too have a problem exactly same as that of corey. I have tried the methods
that he did, but to no avail. if anybody knows the solution or wants more information,
please let me know. thanks
On Sunday, January 16, 2005 at 3:20 am, Corey wrote:
>Unfortunately, I was not so lucky. I have been having a very similar problem with
>.avi files crashing Windows Explorer whenever I so much as click on the file or
try
>to display them in thumbnail view. I have narrowed it down to a number of specific
>files where the problem occurs, but I cannot figure out what is wrong with them.
> Sadly, the regedit trick did not work for me. Any other suggestions from anybody?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Corey
>
>
>
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at 1:09 pm Posted by vikas
(2 messages posted)
thnaks willem,
i had installed ffdshow, i uninstalled it and the problem of win xp crashing has
gone. however, is there any codec pack or version which i can install so that i can
view the avi files without win xp crashing.
thanks again
Vikas
On Monday, January 17, 2005 at 3:42 am, Willem wrote:
>Hi, I had a explorer.exe error on some of my .avi files. I got the error whenever
>I tried to play the file, check properties or tried to burn it in NERO. After some
>browsing (this tread and many more) I came upon some suggestion of it being related
>to a codec problem. I had recently installed SLD 1.5 Pro beta 6, I uninstalled it
>and all troubled files played without any problems. I do think it's not the SLD
codec
>pack in particular, but just one of the codecs included. If you encountered the
problem
>after installing any oder codec pack, just uninstall and see what happens. I now
>use SLD 1.5.3 and without problems.
>Hopefully I could be of help for some of you out there... Greetings.
>
>
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Friday, March 4, 2005 at 10:39 am Posted by Michael Hyman
(1 messages posted)
I just came across this solution to the explorer.exe crashing problem, so I thought
I would share it. No gaurentees, but it worked for me.
In explorer.exe, select Tools->Folder Options->View->UNCHECK "Launch Folder Windows
in Separate Processes"
As soon as you hit OK, the problem is gone. Apparently this is a new problem related
to having more than one instance of explorer.exe running at once. I confirmed the
problem by just watching task manager.
I hope this helps, it fixed my issue.
Regards...Michael
On Sunday, February 27, 2005 at 12:11 pm, Cammie wrote:
>OMG!! Thank u thank u thank u thank u! This right-click-windows explorer thing has
>been bugging me forever. I did what you said, and it's all better!! THANK U!! I
actually
>just un-installed SpySweeper because I have other programs that get rid of spyware
>and the problem is solved.
>
>
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 6:54 pm Posted by Darkien
(1 messages posted)
I have a similar problem with Explorer.exe
When I try to search files using the Search function of the Start Menu, my explorer.exe
crash
When i open the search function it opens normally i write my search options and when
i click the Search button to start the searh it crash.
My System is:
Athlon 64 3000+
1 Gb Ram
Video nVidia GeForce FX 5200 128 Mb
hard drives: SATA 160 Gb Western Digital
PATA 80 Gb Seagate
Windows XP Professional SP2
I hope that someone can help me with this.
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 at 10:25 pm Posted by Caitlin
(1 messages posted)
Hello, I too have the same problem, except i belive mine is a little different then
your guys'. When I try to open any files or folders (my pictures, music, documents,
control panel stuff like that) a message pops up saying"
Explorer.exe-application error
The instruction at "0x01cdf065" referenced memory at "0x000000000". The memory could
not be "written"
Click okay to terminate the program
--
Does anybody know how to fix this, or why and how this even started? It's making
me crazy, and I need the computer to work because I have homework to finish. Thanks!!
Caitlin
On Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 6:54 pm, Darkien wrote:
>I have a similar problem with Explorer.exe
>When I try to search files using the Search function of the Start Menu, my explorer.exe
>crash
>
>When i open the search function it opens normally i write my search options and
when
>i click the Search button to start the searh it crash.
>My System is:
>Athlon 64 3000+
>1 Gb Ram
>Video nVidia GeForce FX 5200 128 Mb
>hard drives: SATA 160 Gb Western Digital
> PATA 80 Gb Seagate
>Windows XP Professional SP2
>
>I hope that someone can help me with this.
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 7:12 am Posted by Falcon
(13489 messages posted)
You are likely infected with CoolWebSearch.
Perform the following:
- Disable System Restore
- Perform an online
virus scan.
- Download, update, and run these tools:
Repeat as necessary until clean.
- If you still experience problems after doing these steps, download
HijackThis and post
a log to
this forum.
- To protect against reinfection, download and use these:
- Optionally Reenable
System Restore
If you encounter any broken links, please inform
me of them. Also note that these links direct through my web server to allow
me to keep them
up-to-date or post additional info.
The Wereotter

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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 6:37 pm Posted by Xerxes
(1 messages posted)
Hey all, found a solution that worked for me...
(i lost the website i copied it from...but it was a post by Authour : rogerh)
>Windows Explorer Thumbnail Crash Workaround · >2004-05-12
>Windows Explorer in XP can be set to show thumbnails >of pictures and movies.
>It’s a useful feature, but kind of unstable.
>Sometimes it doesn’t work and certain movie files can >crash Windows Explorer when
it tries to load their >thumbnails.
>To fix this, use this at a command prompt:
>regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
>To undo the fix, use
>regsvr32 shmedia.dll
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 6:47 pm Posted by Falcon
(13489 messages posted)
Correct. This would not affect things such as Control Panel, however, as they do
not contain video files. An alternative and less drastic way to disable this feature
is ShExView, which will
allow you to disable just the Video Thumbnail Extractor, not all the functionality
of shmedia.dll (Which includes property sheets for video and audio files).
The Wereotter

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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Friday, April 1, 2005 at 8:39 am Posted by Funker
(1 messages posted)
I had exactly the same proble, i resolved my issue by deleting two .mds files (copied
DVD's) from my C/Windows directory.
Since doing that, problem has gone...
On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 6:47 pm, Otter wrote:
>Correct. This would not affect things such as Control Panel, however, as they do
>not contain video files. An alternative and less drastic way to disable this feature
>is ShExView, which will
>allow you to disable just the Video Thumbnail Extractor, not all the functionality
>of shmedia.dll (Which includes property sheets for video and audio files).
> The Wereotter
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Wednesday, April 6, 2005 at 7:08 am Posted by Marty
(1 messages posted)
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
On Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 5:18 pm, George wrote:
>Hello...Decided to come and ask the experts...I am using Windows XP Professional
>and I have an annoyance. When my computer is...I sometimes get a message saying
that
>my explorer.exe has crashed...thus asking me to send an error report etc. I get
this
>many times...what happens after that is only the desktop apperas and then everything
>goes back to normal. If windows media 9.0 is playing and I close it the music still
>plays. Also...i sometimes loose some taskbar icons...Just what is this explorer.exe
>crash and how can it be fixed. thanks.
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Friday, April 8, 2005 at 9:58 am Posted by erikals
(1 messages posted)
Tried the un-assigning thing with PhotoShop icons, but it didn't work. The "psicon.dll"
caused the problem. You can find it in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell"
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re: Explorer.exe crashes and runs at 100%
Friday, April 8, 2005 at 7:23 pm Posted by Ricky fox
(1 messages posted)
Explorer.exe crashes and runs at 100%
On Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 5:18 pm, George wrote:
>Hello...Decided to come and ask the experts...I am using Windows XP Professional
>and I have an annoyance. When my computer is...I sometimes get a message saying
that
>my explorer.exe has crashed...thus asking me to send an error report etc. I get
this
>many times...what happens after that is only the desktop apperas and then everything
>goes back to normal. If windows media 9.0 is playing and I close it the music still
>plays. Also...i sometimes loose some taskbar icons...Just what is this explorer.exe
>crash and how can it be fixed. thanks.
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at 8:56 am Posted by Nathan Kotua
(1 messages posted)
Thank you for this quick reg. hack. It worked a treat now all my movie files work
without crashing explorer.
cheers mate!!!
On Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 7:34 pm, Christie wrote:
>I would just like to thank you for being a genius! I have recently gotten errors
>when moving my cursor over .avi files. I have tried everything people suggested
-
>Registry Mechanic, Windows Updates, etc. Nothing has worked...until now. Deleting
>that default setting in regedit worked like a charm! Thank you for being so great!!!
>:-)
>
>
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at 6:08 pm Posted by Adam Abbate
(1 messages posted)
Hi Mike,
I'm having the same problem as you, did you end up finding a solution to the problem?
Many thanks,
Adam.
On Friday, September 26, 2003 at 7:06 am, Mike Manilla wrote:
>Mine is only slightly different. I get Function address 0x77f580db caused a protection
>fault. (exception code 0xc0000005). When trying to get to the printer properties.
>
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Tuesday, May 3, 2005 at 1:35 am Posted by edy
(1 messages posted)
""explorer.exe has generated error and need to closed"".
almost every windows user used to get such problem, including me, the coused is vary.
many people and forum discuss it for times but the solution is never comes. I was
thinking that this problem was purposely created by microsoft as the leader in "OS".
never think that you will find it's solution as long as you're using microsoft product
as your "OS" or you're not a really expert in "OS".
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Saturday, May 7, 2005 at 3:19 pm Posted by Swifty
(1 messages posted)
Whenever I right clicked in WEx I received a "Data Execution Prevention" message,
and a crash, let alone crashing if I tried Folders view, and random IEx6 crashes.
I received notice of a Java 5.0 update, downloaded it, and now I have no problems
(yet)
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Thursday, May 12, 2005 at 1:17 pm Posted by Tom Black
(1 messages posted)
After weeks of unsuccessful googling to solve this problem on a dell inspiron 9400
with win xp pro (always occured whenever I attempted to paste a copied file) 30 minutes
with a very helpful Dell tech support guy called Jason finally paid off. The answer
was to turn off error reporting (control panel/system properties/advanced/error reporting
- select 'disable error reporting' but select 'but notify me when critical errors
occur') Problem solved!
On Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 5:18 pm, George wrote:
>Hello...Decided to come and ask the experts...I am using Windows XP Professional
>and I have an annoyance. When my computer is...I sometimes get a message saying
that
>my explorer.exe has crashed...thus asking me to send an error report etc. I get
this
>many times...what happens after that is only the desktop apperas and then everything
>goes back to normal. If windows media 9.0 is playing and I close it the music still
>plays. Also...i sometimes loose some taskbar icons...Just what is this explorer.exe
>crash and how can it be fixed. thanks.
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Sunday, May 29, 2005 at 2:20 pm Posted by smersh
(1 messages posted)
Ben Thorne, you are a God among men.
I had the same The instruction at "0x77f580db" referenced memory at "0x00720065".
The memory could not be "read"
deal.
Removed PS Elements.
Bang! It works.
Thanks again!
On Friday, September 26, 2003 at 8:54 am, Ben Thorne wrote:
>I found a solution to this problem. It is a problem with Photoshop. I have version
>7 but it sounds like 6 also does this.
>See link below for the fix that worked for me:
>
>http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_winxp&message.id=53588
>
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Friday, June 10, 2005 at 9:28 am Posted by Joelie Sandoval
(4 messages posted)
I have just found that if you right-click on an image file that is defaulted to Photoshop,
go to Photoshop Image, and uncheck Generate Thumbnails (regardless of what view you're
in) it fixes the problem. At least the JPG issue.
On Friday, April 8, 2005 at 9:58 am, erikals wrote:
>Tried the un-assigning thing with PhotoShop icons, but it didn't work. The "psicon.dll"
>caused the problem. You can find it in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell"
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Saturday, July 2, 2005 at 3:16 am Posted by Abez
(1 messages posted)
Total newbie, but was having a heck of a time with this problem! Just got a brand
new machine and started editing video today, and BOOM, the .avi files I was creating
were crashing windows explorer. But thanks to the genius that IS FALCON, the problem
is now solved. Just DL'ed the ShExView program (took 2 seconds), disabled video
thumbnail view, and the problem was solved--w/o so much as even a restart! Thank
you, thank you, thank you! I'm so relieved I didn't have to edit the registry or
do anything drastic!!
On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 6:47 pm, Falcon wrote:
>Correct. This would not affect things such as Control Panel, however, as they do
>not contain video files. An alternative and less drastic way to disable this feature
>is ShExView, which will
>allow you to disable just the Video Thumbnail Extractor, not all the functionality
>of shmedia.dll (Which includes property sheets for video and audio files).
> The Wereotter
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Saturday, July 2, 2005 at 6:25 am Posted by Falcon
(13489 messages posted)
You're welcome... I found ShellExView after I got tired of manually removing the
sixty shell extentions I don't need. Now it's on every computer I use. ;)
My Malware Removal Instructions
Perform the following:
-
Disable
System
Restore
*
- Perform an online
virus scan
*
*
*
*
.
- Download, update, and run these tools:
Repeat as necessary until clean.
- If you still experience problems after doing these steps, download
HijackThis
*
and post a log to this forum.
- To protect against reinfection, download and use these:
If at all possible, I recommend that you use alternative software, particularly
web browsers
and email clients:
If this is not a viable option, or for additional protection, use these:
- Optionally Reenable
System Restore
*
. Better
alternatives
to System Restore.
If you encounter any broken links, please inform
me of them. Also note that these links direct through my web server to
allow me to keep them
up-to-date or post additional info. If you are unable to use the links above,
click the stars
instead, which are a direct link to the page in question.
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re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Monday, July 11, 2005 at 12:45 am Posted by DrWho
(1 messages posted)
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
On Monday, January 17, 2005 at 3:42 am, Willem wrote:
>Hi, I had a explorer.exe error on some of my .avi files. I got the error whenever
>I tried to play the file, check properties or tried to burn it in NERO. After some
>browsing (this tread and many more) I came upon some suggestion of it being related
>to a codec problem. I had recently installed SLD 1.5 Pro beta 6, I uninstalled it
>and all troubled files played without any problems. I do think it's not the SLD
codec
>pack in particular, but just one of the codecs included. If you encountered the
problem
>after installing any oder codec pack, just uninstall and see what happens. I now
>use SLD 1.5.3 and without problems.
>Hopefully I could be of help for some of you out there... Greetings.
>
>
>
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Explorer.exe crashes when trying to Search
Wednesday, July 27, 2005 at 5:29 am 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:
>
>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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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Saturday, July 30, 2005 at 7:46 pm Posted by Charles
(1 messages posted)
I had recently put a few hundred mpegs in a folder (I don't have any DivX), but then
I noticed that the hard-drive would grind for about 10 minutes whenever I simply
clicked on the folder to open it.
I tried the method:
"run regedit and find the following key :- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
Delete the "Default" value then close"
but it didn't do anything.
Then I tried the program ShellExView at:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
I tried disabling the "suspicious" stuff that the program showed highlighted in red
(pink, actually), but that still didn't help. So I started looking at the File Extensions
that had anything to do with mpegs. Long story short... the Video Thumbnail Extractor
was the culprit.
WINDOWS\system32\shmedia.dll
{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}
When I disabled it, all of the folders (and some programs) now open instantly!
BTW, this is with Windows XP SP2. Thanks to everyone here that got me pointed in
the right direction. I was going to re-install XP (and the problem) again tomorrow!
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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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Friday, September 2, 2005 at 8:09 pm Posted by PR
(1 messages posted)
I want to thank you, too! I'm a novice as well and didn't know what to do when my
Windows Explorer program crashed whenever I tried to open "My Pictures". I found
this thread and your suggestion, downloaded ShellExView and disabled Thumbnail Extractor.
Worked!! I only hope when I start making video CDs that I don't need that program
(but at least I know all I have to do is enable it again). REALLY appreciate your
help!
PamR
On Saturday, July 2, 2005 at 6:25 am, Falcon wrote:
>You're welcome... I found ShellExView after I got tired of manually removing the
>sixty shell extentions I don't need. Now it's on every computer I use. ;)
>
>style="margin-left: 0; line-height: normal; color: black; font-size: medium">
>
> 
>
>
> My Malware Removal Instructions
>
>
>
> Perform the following:
>
>
>
> Disable
>System
>Restore
>
> *
>
>
>
>
> - Perform an online
>virus scan
>
> *
>
>
>
> *
>
>
> *
>
>
> *
>
> .
>
>
> - Download, update, and run these tools:
>
> Repeat as necessary until clean.
>
>
>
> - If you still experience problems after doing these steps, download
> HijackThis
>
> *
>
> and post a log to this forum.
>
>
> - To protect against reinfection, download and use these:
>
> If at all possible, I recommend that you use alternative software, particularly
>web browsers
> and email clients:
>
>
> If this is not a viable option, or for additional protection, use these:
>
>
>
> - Optionally Reenable
>System Restore
>
> *
> . Better
>alternatives
>
>to System Restore.
>
>
>
> If you encounter any broken links, please inform
> me of them. Also note that these links direct through my web server to
>allow me to keep them
> up-to-date or post additional info. If you are unable to use the links above,
>click the stars
> instead, which are a direct link to the page in question.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Thursday, September 8, 2005 at 12:23 pm Posted by flaming simona
(48 messages posted)
Hi, my explorer also crashes but it has rather weird symptoms. First of all, explorer
always crashes on startup then works like nothing happened. Second, some shorcuts
on the desktop cause explorer to crash when double-clicked. The message I get is
as follows:
The instruction at 0x6006041 "referenced" memory at 0x66006041. The memory could
not be "read."
Click on OK to terminate the program.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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re: cidaemon [the memory could not be ''read'']
Friday, September 30, 2005 at 11:27 pm Posted by codecs
(1 messages posted)
if your having problem with avi files, its becos of your video codes. for example
ffdshow, just remove it and get another one. or try to install it again
On Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 1:53 pm, chris lord wrote:
>
>I had the same reported problem but with avi files. a solution seems to be to rename
>the file extention to something random like ".111", and then I could open my folder
>without any crashes. It must have been something to do with the way windows explorer
>communicates with the assocated program to provided information about the file.
So
>if the extention is changed windows explorer cannot find a assocated program to
find
>information about the file.
>
>But this doesnt provide a real solution; but it can stop a lot of flustration crashed.
>
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re: Explorer.exe crashes
Thursday, October 6, 2005 at 2:07 pm Posted by Neviton
(1 messages posted)
I'm having the same problem as you! | |
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