Re: Opening My Computer causes Windows Explorer crash
- From: "Douglas Kentner" <doug AT kentner.net>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:29:39 -0700
I've run into a similar problem several times when browsing some folder on
my laptop. The extra information i've been able to glean from those
instances is that it usually happens when i have some file that contains a
GUID from another computer that i've copied to my laptop, like if I move
album art for media player, deleting the GUID containing files usually does
it for me, I'm guessing there's a problem resolving the non existent GUID
which makes explorer crash.
hope it helps.
"G_Sampson" <G_Sampson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B99BED0E-A82C-4A19-AC77-4DF975D62757@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hopefully someone can help !
>
> First of all the basics, I'm running W2K with the latest service pak with
> IE6 SP1. I have a Radeon 9200 TV video card with (I think) 128M ram. I
> first
> thought this might be a video card problem so I got the latest drivers for
> that. I usually leave the automatic updates on so I get the latest
> updates. I
> have a C: drive of 80GB and a D: drive 130GB - both Western Digital Caviar
> drives. The PC is a ABS P3 733Mhz with 512M ram. I keep Norton
> Systemworks
> and Norton antivirus up to date and do a routine scan every week or so.
>
> I have a aggravating problem with Windows 2000 when I open up Windows
> Explorer (default view with My documents opened) then I open My computer
> to
> look at files on my D: drive and scroll down Windows Explorer crashes. It
> will usually do this 3 or 4 times - at which point the active desktop
> crashes, a lot of the icons in the system tray disappear - at which point
> I
> can restart the active destkop open up windows explorer and use it
> normally.
> It usually is when I'm scrolling but it also occurs when I click the +
> sign
> to open up my computer. I usually get a messagebox Dr Watson 'This
> Application has performed a illegal function and will be shut down' A log
> file is being generated. If it's talking about the event log or
> application
> log I haven't seen anything in there that seems to be related to the
> crash. I
> turned DrWatson on for awhile but it only occured once - and DrWatson
> didn't
> record anything ??
>
> I have tried swapping the video card with a older one but doesn't make
> much
> difference - I also put a 30Gb in place of the 130Gb - same problem - I
> saw a
> recommendation on here that some windows 'scripts' might be causing a
> crash
> if they weren't up to date or corrupt so I downloaded the scripts file
> from
> here(Microsoft) and installed it - I thought it worked for awhile but it
> was
> only a day or two. The problem comes back. I am almost at the point of
> wiping
> out and complete re-install but I'm dreading the hundreds of installation
> CD's and patches/updates ETC.... ETC.....
>
> Anyone out there ever saw symptoms similar to this ???????????????
>
> Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated.
.
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