Windows Explorer closing for no apparent reason

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For the last few days, whenever I try to view certain folders on my computer,
or access the files in those folders, windows explorer or whatever
application is viewing the folder closes. Usually, I get no error message or
anything else, but once this evening I got a DrWatson PostMortem Debugger
error, which is weird, as I don't recall ever installing a DrWatson anything.

This problem doesn't affect any subfolders that are contained in the ones
that shut, if i'm fast enough to open them.

I'm stumped, as I have run pc-cillin, norton av, ad-aware, spybot, and even
microsoft's anti-malware app, as well as defragged, tried a system restore
point, everything short of formatting.

I'm running an athlon64 3000+, 1gb of ddr400 ram and have windows xp home
sp2 installed. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
 
DrWatson is the crash tool built into Windows
By any chance do the crashing folders contain video files?

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Larry Samuels Associate Expert
MS-MVP (2001-2005)
Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 at
http://pelos.us/SERVER.htm
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Yes, they do. All the video files I use for my university work, which is a
heap of files in .mov, .avi and .mpeg format. If I lose them, I lose a bit
over a semester's work.
 
OUCH! I was afraid of that. A corrupt avi (usually a bad DIVX format, but
any corrupt avi can cause it) will cause those exact symptoms.

Tracing down the bad file can be a bit of a bear because of the crashing,
but it is easier if you have a BartPE boot disk.

Boot to Bart and use system commander to move each suspect file to it's own
folder (one file per folder). When you boot back to Windows the folders
containing corrupt files will crash on access. Replace those files from
known good backups.

You can get the program needed to build a PE disk at
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/


--
Larry Samuels Associate Expert
MS-MVP (2001-2005)
Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 at
http://pelos.us/SERVER.htm
Expert Zone-
 
OUCH! I was afraid of that. A corrupt avi (usually a bad DIVX format, but
any corrupt avi can cause it) will cause those exact symptoms.

Tracing down the bad file can be a bit of a bear because of the crashing,
but it is easier if you have a BartPE boot disk.

Boot to Bart and use system commander to move each suspect file to it's own
folder (one file per folder). When you boot back to Windows the folders
containing corrupt files will crash on access. Replace those files from
known good backups.

You can get the program needed to build a PE disk at
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Click to expand...

something a lot of people overlook, is
admin tools- event viewer that records nearly every key pressed during a session which might tell him exactly what file is causing the problem in the details.
 
I had the same problem.This is a codec problem. I fixed it by
installing K-Light codec pack, however any codec pack would probably
fix it. After that problem was fixed I then experienced not being able
to move or delete some avi files. It said was in use by another
program. Took some looking around but it turned out that if you right
click on file and go to summary and it shows all the bitrate info, that
was what was causing it (according to the website i found. Sorry dont
remember address)

.. They provided a regfix

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
Then change the default key from {87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}
to 0

Now if you go to properties and summary it displays no info and the
file can be deleted.

Hope this helps, It helped me
Geoff
 
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