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My Network Places win32 exception
Name: tclark333 Date: September 30, 2006 at 14:57:53 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro Product: Dell Inspiron 8500
Comment:
Whenever I try to open my network places, I get an error that says "An unhandled win32 exception occured in explorer.exe [3492]". Nothing else that I have found causes this problem, and I have done all basic troubleshooting that I can think of (restart, scans, disable stuff, etc.).
I believe this may have something to do with installing Visual Studio 2005 since every time this happens, the error message pops up in the Visual Studio Just-In-Time-Debugger. I don't remember it doing that before I installed Visual Studio. I would hate to uninstall that though because it takes so long to install and I am doing a lot of work with it right now.
Name: Sabertooth Date: September 30, 2006 at 15:01:18 Pacific
Reply:
If you mean besides uninstalling and reinstalling Visual Studio - then no unfortunately.
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Response Number 2
Name: ham30 Date: September 30, 2006 at 15:33:56 Pacific
Reply:
I agree. It would appear that Visual Studio changed something that it shouldn't have. Unfortunately, there's a chance that an uninstall might not fix it. Uninstalls do not always clean up everything that an install does.
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: September 30, 2006 at 15:46:46 Pacific
Summary: When I use the computer that I have set up as the server for my home network, when I go to my network places and try to view the computers in my workgroup the process stops responding and I have to hi...
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