Ravager Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 Hey everyone. What's been happening to me is this: Whenever I go to my network connections list (with the Local Area Connection) and right click on it and click "Properties", my Explorer.exe instantly crashes. This problem doesn't occur, though, if I disable the network device first. However, if it is enabled and I try to view its properties, explorer.exe crashes. Has anyone ever experienced this problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+allan MVC Posted May 22, 2004 MVC Share Posted May 22, 2004 disregard - I posted in the wrong thread - sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted May 22, 2004 Veteran Share Posted May 22, 2004 disregard - I posted in the wrong thread - sorry. It happens :p Ravager, you mentioned that explorer will not crash if the NIC is disabled - Could it be that the crashing is caused by the NIC driver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravager Posted May 22, 2004 Author Share Posted May 22, 2004 Unlikely. I uninstalled the drivers for EACH of my cards (one's a wireless), and reinstalled them. Both cards exhibit the exact same problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToryAmos Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 things to try - > delete or disable the connection/s if possible. uninstall drivers from add/remove. then be sure the network adapters have been removed also from device manager. shutdown, put the adapters/NICs into different PCI slots. restart. install drivers. reconfigure connection properties. might help to uninstall any software firewalls too. if you've been 'tweaking' any services, go an untweak them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted May 22, 2004 Veteran Share Posted May 22, 2004 Check Event Viewer and see if you can get anything out of explorer crashing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravager Posted May 22, 2004 Author Share Posted May 22, 2004 I can't really switch around my NICs, since one is in the mobo. But I tried uninstalling/rebooting again... same problem. And there's nothing in Event Viewer. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted May 22, 2004 Veteran Share Posted May 22, 2004 Nothing in Event viewer at all? That's weird.. Explorer crashing should be logged. Are you sure that you didn't miss it? Try clearing what's already been logged in Event Viewer and see what gets recorded after Explorer crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravager Posted May 22, 2004 Author Share Posted May 22, 2004 Nope. Nothing in there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToryAmos Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 when did this begin ? have you tried a system restore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravager Posted May 22, 2004 Author Share Posted May 22, 2004 The odd thing is that I don't really know when this began. I just remember trying to access my properties a few days ago and Explorer just crashed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIFFSTER Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 You are not alone in this strange error... I too am experiencing the same situation, if my network adapter is enabled and I go to view the properties of it, Explorer crashes, if I disable the adapter and view the properties it works fine... I mean I can live with this strange occurance by going the disabled route.. I had even gone out to 3COM and pulled the drivers for the 3C905C-TX and that didn't seem to help... I just reloaded this workstation last week and this is the first time in the history of me using Windows XP that I have experienced this.... Anyone have any other clues?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted June 1, 2004 Share Posted June 1, 2004 I am having the same problem with a user's laptop. Haven't tried the below step yet as they need to get back on to their machine. Currently on wireless instead of wired card. After you disable the adapter can you try going in and removing/reinstalling the tcp/ip protocol? See if that works? Let me know. Thanks. Del Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted June 1, 2004 Veteran Share Posted June 1, 2004 You can't remove TCP/IP on XP, and I really wish you could because I have a similar problem of my own. I can open the connection properties just fine, but on the General tab, I can't view the TCP/IP properties :s I've tried everything I know and everything I've seen, and given up several times. I think it goes back to that time I tried to manually remove NETBIOS from my machine :whistle: :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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