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Geek Culture / Annoying explorer crashes

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Insanity Complex
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Posted: 11th Jul 2009 08:20
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Now, to start off, I have googled this, and looked into the problem. I believe I have found the area in which the solution would lie...but the fixes I have accomplished are temporary and somewhat...hit or miss.

I'm not sure when this started happening, but one day I noticed, while trying to delete some things off my desktop(I keep a blank desktop and some program decided not to ask me if I wanted a desktop icon), that explorer crashed right there. I blew it off to worry about later, then went into one of my folders, right clicked a file, and boom, explorer crashes again. This occurs in basically anything similar to these two actions inside of explorer.

The solution I came across after some searching, was context menus. It suggested using ShellExView to disable context menus one by one until I found the specific one that caused my problem. This is where it got interesting for me.

Initially, I disabled the 7zip shell extension(which is now nonexistant on my computer), and viola, problem solved! I was happy. A few hours later, after having left the computer and come back, the problem occurred again. ShellExView was still running with 7zip disabled. So, I enabled the 7zip extension again, and tried disabling another... Viola, problem solved...

After a week or two of playing in this manner, I've come to realize that whether the problem is solved or not isn't so much reliant on what context menu I disable, or whether they are disabled or not(I actually enabled ALL the ones I had disabled at one point, and had no problems for a while), but rather the fact that I had done something with ShellExView recently.

Naturally, this makes no sense, and provides for no real solution. I have of course ran Spyware and Virus scans, using Spyware Hunter and Avast, respectively. Nothing has been found on my computer. I am really at a loss with this one...and while I have a workaround...having to hard close explorer and sometimes even force run it(when it crashes from something on the desktop) is a rather annoying inconvenience.

Any help or insight into my problem is greatly appreciated.


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kaedroho
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Posted: 11th Jul 2009 19:01
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What operating system are you using?


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GatorHex
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Posted: 11th Jul 2009 22:10 Edited at: 11th Jul 2009 23:26
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I've just restored my old laptop back to it's original state and now explorer crashes.

As far as I can tell it seems to be Flash Player 7 cannot play todays flash adverts. I guess it needs updating. I'll let the next owner sort that out.

Don't use a dodgy copy of XP as far as I can tell the security updates are dissabled and the viruses get in.

DinoHunter (still no nVidia compo voucher!), CPU/GPU Benchmark, DarkFish Encryption DLL, War MMOG (WIP), 3D Model Viewer
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Insanity Complex
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Posted: 11th Jul 2009 23:15
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Oh, sorry, I'm running WinXP Pro. Here's a dxdiag of my comp if it helps




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