Re: Explorer Error - My Observations and Solution - Read this one
- From: "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 09:31:43 -0400
It seems that you have caught Microsoft in a "gotcha".
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Richard Urban
aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"Mike" <nunya@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My explorer observations -
>
> There is one thing I have finally found I can do to reproduce an explorer
> crash every single time with the error below
>
> "Data execution Prevention - Microsoft Windows" <== this is the key
> "To help protect your computer, Windows has closed this program"
> Name: Windows Explorer
>
> I have a solution that works for me - though I don't know how "unsafe" or
> wise it is.
>
> First how to reproduce the error:
> In my media folder I have some very large media files, esp. my video
> captures for projects - several over a Gig, one that is 9 Gig. I have to
> keep my media folder views in detail mode, never thumbnail or I crash with
> the error. If I single click or right click on the larger files (over a
> Gig - haven't found the exact threshold) the preview does not display in
> the folder sidebar and then I get the explorer error. The preview image
> in the sidebar never shows up. The filesize etc. does. There seems to be
> an issue handling large files in something that on file access. If I
> ignore the error and don't click close - I can navigate normally and even
> run the file. These are good files, not corrupt, I've ran them and used
> them in editing.. So far it seems to be a constant issue on any file that
> big.
>
> Don't know if that is related to the other explorer issues I have read in
> here or something else entirely. But the issue seems to be in the Data
> Execution Prevention (DEP). If you right click on "My Computer" and go to
> Properties, or go to the control panel and open up "System", go to the
> Advanced tab, then the Data Execution Prevention tab - there are two
> options - "Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only"
> (default setting). The other option is "Turn on DEP for all programs and
> services except those I select" I changed the setting to the second one,
> Windows Explorer appeared as a program to exclude from DEP, I checked it.
> After a reboot - I no longer get the error doing the above. The only
> issue now is that DEP is now on for all programs, and if this is the
> culprit, am I going to have to add every program that misbehaves with DEP
> as the errors occur?
>
> Now this is the kicker - in the "Help and Support Center" on DEP - there
> is this line:
> "In cases where a program does not run correctly with DEP turned on, you
> can reduce security risks by getting a DEP-compatible version of the
> program from the software publisher."
>
> OK, I'll bite - how do I ask Microsoft for a DEP compatible version of
> Explorer.exe??
>
> I have SP2 and all the latest patches, updates for Windows and my mb bios
> (MSI K8N Neo2) and mb drivers.
>
> Mike
> Okana Cox.net
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