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K, I crash whenever I open a folder containing pictures


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WTF? I open any folder which has pics in it (.ico .jpg .bmp) anything, and a few seconds later, my explorer crashes. This is soooo annoying. When it crashes the window that had my opened pics closes, the majority of programs in my system tray close (like my valuable popup blocker). This is really annoying.

I tried updating my video card drivers, restoring the original explorer.exe and shell32.dll files, nothing helps. Any suggestions?

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turn off thumbnail view?

btw..when explorer crashes, and you dont see the icon in your system tray, it doesn't mean the program is closed.... if you check running processes in task manager you'll see they're still running in the background

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Originally posted by Spyder

turn off thumbnail view?

btw..when explorer crashes, and you dont see the icon in your system tray, it doesn't mean the program is closed.... if you check running processes in task manager you'll see they're still running in the background

It's tot ONLY thumbnail view... when I open any picture of any type (except stuff in photoshop)

Also, my popup killer closes when the explorer crashes. It doesn't just hide. That's the program i really need.

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had same problem few months ago,

when i download pictures from kazaa and i open mysharedfolder then it crashes

and i noticed that the picture has very very long names so try to rename it to bit short name, not sure but try...

Hiren.

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Is it every folder with pictures, or just a few?

I had that happen once, deleting thumbs.db and desktop.ini fixed it. (For me it was just one folder that did it.)

It's a hidden file so you'll have to go to Tools-> Folder Options -> View ->

Check show hidden files and folders.

Then uncheck "Hide protected operating system files"

(If it crashes before you can delete that file, maybe you'll be able to get in through photoshop to delete it? :confused: )

Perhaps if that works for one folder you can find a program to remove them all so you don't have to do it manually.

Have you tried system restore?

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