windows explorer.exe error

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A couple of things to try

by Tig2 · 14 years ago In reply to windows explorer.exe erro ...

Boot to safe mode and rerun your AV. Freshest copies are best. DO NOT boot to safe and then go out on the net. BAD plan!!!

Go to www.ccleaner.com and download Crap Cleaner. Run it against issues and the registry. Run it recursively as a thing that it removes in one pass may expose things that it will only catch in subsequent passes.

Let us know what happens.

Good Luck!

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windows error

by jordanspcrepair · 14 years ago In reply to A couple of things to try

check your computer for windows updates.

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Try a small test

by bhatnagar_nitin · 14 years ago In reply to windows explorer.exe erro ...

1) Download/test a small sample video file(.avi such as c:\windows\clock.avi) into a different folder than the one which is causing this crash.
2) Try to play this file from windows media player first and don't open the explorer.
3) If it works then open the windows explorer and next open from there too.
4) If it don't work, then your computer is not upto date and you need to download the WMP9 runtime plugins atleast. For this, goto windows update site and download updates for your computer. Here's the site:
www.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
5) If not the above cases at all, and your sample file is playing perfectly from windows explorer too, then it's for sure that the previous video files causing explorer to crash, are corrupt and you need to delete/backup them in order to explorer.exe work perfectly.

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