Strange problems with shared documents

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I am running a 2 system LAN with a Microsoft router, both
systems are running XP Home Edition. All of a sudden
when trying to access the Shared Documents folders
locally through My Network Places explorer crashes. This
happens on both system. When trying to access Shared
Documents from the other systems it goes ok.

Now if I go to the local shared documents from My
Computer it goes ok.

Today I am not getting any messages in the event logs on
the crashes but yesterday I was getting an
Appliciation error Event ID 1000
Faulting appliciaton explorer.exe
version 6.0.2800.1221,Faulting module, version
6.0.2800.1223, Fault address 0x000c745f
 
I am running a 2 system LAN with a Microsoft router, both
systems are running XP Home Edition. All of a sudden
when trying to access the Shared Documents folders
locally through My Network Places explorer crashes. This
happens on both system. When trying to access Shared
Documents from the other systems it goes ok.

Now if I go to the local shared documents from My
Computer it goes ok.

Today I am not getting any messages in the event logs on
the crashes but yesterday I was getting an
Appliciation error Event ID 1000
Faulting appliciaton explorer.exe
version 6.0.2800.1221,Faulting module, version
6.0.2800.1223, Fault address 0x000c745f
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What documents do you have in that folder? Any AVI files, by any
chance?

The reason I'm asking is that some software, including codecs,
apparently plugs into Windows Explorer in a way that the files
are actually read when WE should merely show them. If the
reading program, possibly the codec, crashes, it can take WE
with it. These are guesses and may be rather imprecise.

You could try to move all files out of that folder and try
again, for a test.

Hans-Georg
 
-----Original Message-----
I am running a 2 system LAN with a Microsoft router, both
systems are running XP Home Edition. All of a sudden
when trying to access the Shared Documents folders
locally through My Network Places explorer crashes. This
happens on both system. When trying to access Shared
Documents from the other systems it goes ok.

Now if I go to the local shared documents from My
Computer it goes ok.

Today I am not getting any messages in the event logs on
the crashes but yesterday I was getting an
Appliciation error Event ID 1000
Faulting appliciaton explorer.exe
version 6.0.2800.1221,Faulting module, version
6.0.2800.1223, Fault address 0x000c745f

.
I have had this problem since august it has appeared
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many times in forums but no answer seems to have been
found I have tried Ms online assistance and the last
suggestion was that it was caused by the program VTplus
for wintv which I should uninstall although it has been
working perfectly ok for the previous six months I
removed it and it made no differance what so ever, I now
wait for the next suggestion from Ms support.
 
Leslie said:
I have had this problem since august it has appeared
many times in forums but no answer seems to have been
found I have tried Ms online assistance and the last
suggestion was that it was caused by the program VTplus
for wintv which I should uninstall although it has been
working perfectly ok for the previous six months I
removed it and it made no differance what so ever, I now
wait for the next suggestion from Ms support.
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Leslie and the original poster,

MS does not regularly read this newsgroup or reply to messages.
This is not normally a path to Microsoft. It is a peer-to-peer
assistance group. I'm not a Microsoft employee.

Please reply to this message to let everybody see whether you
can read the replies. There is suspicion that at least the
original poster writes, but does not read. Please reply if this
is not so.

Have you read my previous reply as well?

Hans-Georg
 
No I have no movie files in this folder. I forget when
the last time I tired this that it worked but the only
thing that I have done on both systems exactly the same
are the MS Updates.

Thanks Jack
 
Jack said:
No I have no movie files in this folder. I forget when
the last time I tired this that it worked but the only
thing that I have done on both systems exactly the same
are the MS Updates.
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Jack,

you could try to move all files out of that folder and try
again, for a test.

Hans-Georg
 
Hans-Georg Michna said:
you could try to move all files out of that folder and try
again, for a test.
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Forgot to mention, if Windows Explorer crashes, you have to use
the move command in a command line window to move the files.

Type:

move /?

to get help on how to use this command.

Hans-Georg
 
I had the same problem on two computers on my network. I added two more
computers, both new, and they DIDN'T exhibit this behavior until I ran the
critical updates from Microsoft. Now they both exhibit the "strange problem"
that you describe. Another thing I noticed is that before the updates, the
local SharedDocs folder in MNP displayed a networked folder icon, the same
icon displayed for the remote shared folders. After the updates the icon
changed to that of a regular folder. Now I just have to figure out WHICH
update it was as I did about six at one time. Since I made no other changes
other than the critical updates it has to be one of them. If you really MUST
access the local Shared Documents folder via My Network Places then switch
"Show common tasks in folders" to "Use Windows classic folders" under Tools,
Folder Options. For some reason, Explorer only crashes when accessing the
local Shared Documents subfolder accessed via My Network Places if the
"common tasks" view is enabled.
If I figure out which update is causing this I'll post it here. It may be a
bug, or as Microsoft sometimes puts it, "behavior by design." :)

Mike
 
Mike said:
I had the same problem on two computers on my network. I added two more
computers, both new, and they DIDN'T exhibit this behavior until I ran the
critical updates from Microsoft. Now they both exhibit the "strange problem"
that you describe. Another thing I noticed is that before the updates, the
local SharedDocs folder in MNP displayed a networked folder icon, the same
icon displayed for the remote shared folders. After the updates the icon
changed to that of a regular folder. Now I just have to figure out WHICH
update it was as I did about six at one time. Since I made no other changes
other than the critical updates it has to be one of them. If you really MUST
access the local Shared Documents folder via My Network Places then switch
"Show common tasks in folders" to "Use Windows classic folders" under Tools,
Folder Options. For some reason, Explorer only crashes when accessing the
local Shared Documents subfolder accessed via My Network Places if the
"common tasks" view is enabled.
If I figure out which update is causing this I'll post it here. It may be a
bug, or as Microsoft sometimes puts it, "behavior by design." :)
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Mike,

have you tried un-sharing, then re-sharing the folders in
question? Sometimes this is necessary.

Hans-Georg
 
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