error pops up everytime i go into a folder

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  1. sasuke211

    sasuke211 Member

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    please help this is a part from it and im trying to get a pic. whenever i open a folder like the ones i make up it pops up with a explorer.exe error. please help T.T

    AppName: explorer.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.3156 ModName: ntdll.dll
    ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 0003426d
     
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    sounds like a virus, or a corrupt sys file. re-format.
     
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    i think it was a regristry file that i accdently removed but its working a bit better.
     
  4. jony218

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    Is this windows xp? if there are any video files in the computer you might want to do the following. This fixed my explorer crashing problems. Even if there are no video files in the folders you try to open, you can never rule it out as the cause of the problem.

    Description: When opening folders with movie files in them, windows explorer (the desktop) crashes.

    Problem: This is a known issue with Windows XP's video thumbnail thing in Explorer. Being a thing invented by MS, it's buggy and doesn't always know how to handle things not supported by MS, and occasionally fails on things it does know how to support too. Every now and again it will crash and take Explorer down with it. Easy to solve thankfully.
    Solution: Windows XP:

    * Go to Start -> Run... and type regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll

    Press enter. Done. It's as simple as that. If you, for some reason want it back, simply do the same thing again, but remove the "/u". That is: Start -> Run... regsvr32 shmedia.dll

    This will only disable movie thumbnails/previews, not picture thumbnails.
     

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