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re: One way to crash explorer.exe Sunday, February 1, 2004 at 10:36 pm Posted by Aaron (46 messages posted) thanks for the tip 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: One way to crash explorer.exe Thursday, February 19, 2004 at 6:31 pm 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: One way to crash explorer.exe Izarc Thursday, June 17, 2004 at 12:39 pm Posted by Gerard (1 messages posted) I had this problem only AFTER I installed the latest Izarc from Shinobi Resources. Once I uninstalled Izarc the problem went away. When I reinstalled Izarc the problem came back. I uninstalled Izarc and the problem went away again. On Sunday, February 1, 2004 at 10:36 pm, Aaron wrote: >thanks for the tip > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum