Weird problem. With explorer.exe

[Asuka]

Alright well, this problem just started happeneing. Im wondering what might cause this.

I have a C drive 74 gig 10,000 rpm harddrive and a E drive 320 gigs 7200 rpm.

I have all my videos and a lot of games on E and some games on C (the ones i play the most)

Now my problem is this. Lets say i copy a video from E and past it on C or somewhere else on E it will crash my explorer.exe. This only happens with video files, tryed with pictures and it doesnt happen. Now when i try to go back to that folder with the file i just pasted in, it crashes my explorer.exe. (i tryed running the file before the exe crashes see if the files is corrupt or anything and it runs fine.

This is the error.

C:\DOCUME~1\Asuka\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER8573.dir00\explorer.exe.mdmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Asuka\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER8573.dir00\appcompat.txt

Look at pic for more Error info.

Oh and if it means anything. I defragged both my hard drives before this started happening so im thinking thats what caused this.

http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/8500/error9vc.png


thx for help.


Update: ok i was messing around testing things. and EVERY folder i open with these set of videos I MADE it always crashes.

Now these videos have always worked before.

 

[gweedodogg69]

Strange problem, my problem is that video files I open, every once in a while...Media Player will hang (seen it so many times I know I'm gonna get a blue screen) and my nvidia driver gets stuck in the dreaded loop. So I reboot and back to watchin pr0n or w/e movies I downloaded. hahaha. Check Event Viewer for any error codes and google it. Works for me most of the time.

 

[Chris D]

This is a quick fix, but not a fix that'd come highly recommended unless you're 100% confident in any internet security software you have running on your computer.

Right click on the My Computer icon
Select Properties
Click on the Advanced Tab
Click on the Performance Settings
Click on the Data Execution Prevention tab
Click on "Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select:"
Click on Add...
Type: %systemroot%\explorer.exe and press enter
Click Ok on the warning
Apply all changes

This should disable DEP on Explorer.exe and therefore not give you the errors you've had before.

Otherwise, I notice in the screenshot there that it mentions xvid.dll. Go to Add/Remove programs and remove all xVid components. Did you make the videos in Xvid?

The only thing I can think of if those don't work, is to reinstall Windows. Standard operations in Windows certainly shouldn't be causing errors in explorer.exe unless your Windows installation is corrupt.

 

[WhiteZero]

Yeah, my Laptop has had that DEP crap bugging me too. But I just googled it to find Chris_D's fix there.