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click EXPLORE cause exploer.exe error
Name: rock scarfone Date: November 27, 2001 at 02:28:07 Pacific
Comment:
when i right click START and then EXPLORE a message appears
" explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows. you will need to restart the program. an error log is being created. "
and the error log says little esle besides
" the shell stopped unexpectedly and explorer.exe was restarted "
this is on a P4 512 rambus win 2K pro
installed about twn gigs software on new box.. all went well until this?/
Name: Peter Date: January 2, 2002 at 19:57:24 Pacific
Reply:
If you have McAfee Antivirus software installed or other products by McAfee or Network Associates, I would try unistalling those products. It seemed to work for me. Otherwise, I would try searching on the internet using the following string as the search query:
The shell stopped unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted.
Goodluck.
Peter
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Response Number 2
Name: Michael Hanrahan Date: January 6, 2002 at 07:16:30 Pacific
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I have noticed that this happens to me after I install visual studio 6.0 (including all the service packs). I have tested this on three different machines (all running win2k) and they all experienced this error after the VS 6.0 installation. I have yet to find a solution unfortunately, but if I do I will let you know.
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Response Number 3
Name: MrMoBo Date: January 10, 2002 at 10:49:46 Pacific
Reply:
Same explorer.exe problem here. Try right-clicking the explorer icon, open properties, change "target location" from %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe to %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /select,C:\"whatever here" such as "documents and settings"(without the quotes). Worked for me. Good Luck
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Response Number 4
Name: dave Date: January 15, 2002 at 01:02:53 Pacific
Reply:
The solution to change the target location to %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /select,C:\"some directory" solved my explorer crashing problem too. "some directory" references the name of a directory in the root of your c:\ path.
Thanks for the great tip!!!
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Response Number 5
Name: TJ Date: January 23, 2002 at 00:10:23 Pacific
Reply:
Remove Novell Distributed Print Services and this will resolve the issue.
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Response Number 6
Name: Gabe Date: January 25, 2002 at 12:34:26 Pacific
Reply:
I also un-installed Mcafee and It solved my problem
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Response Number 7
Name: MP Date: February 4, 2002 at 16:43:46 Pacific
Reply:
Hi
The tip seems to fix the problem but in fact it persists if you try to press the back button on explorer.
Is there any other program that could be used instead of Explorer.exe ?
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