Explorer.exe crashes once in a while in Winx64 (7100) RC


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Its been 2 weeks since installing RC, and right now for some reason Explorer.exe keeps crashing. How can I fix it? Thanks

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After doing some testing, Explorer.exe crashes sometimes when I drag files around between folders, and more often when I drag a video file directly into the media player classic container. But if I double click the media file which is already associated with media player classic, it doesn't crash. What is wrong with my installation. I really don't want to do another clean install. I already have everything customized and proper programs installed. Let me know how to fix this. Thanks.

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What are the fault details? Do you have a crash dump file of the crash to look at... ?

Try the "view reliability history" control panel, then click View all problem reports - you should see details there. :)

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Happens here too. Using a SVN build of MPC-HC x64 with it's built-in codecs. I looked at "view reliability history" but it hasn't updated for the last couple of weeks. Maybe I turned it off somehow when tweaking options/services.

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When I click ""View all problem reports"?" it says "There are no reports in this view."

I checked the services cp and there's only a handful disabled (I usually just change them to manual) and none look like they'd stop Error Reporting from working. According to the tweak guide I read, the WEP service is set to manual by default and still is here.

Apart from the crash, the only real annoyance is the icon layout is forgotten when explorer reloads.

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Don't use an RC OS?

Seriously, if you're not posting to help then what's the point?

To the OP, I would just use System Restore or perform a repair installation.

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Explorer has crashed once for me so far .. in 7100 x86.

I was video editing at the time .. at least explorer restarted and recovered itself quite well .. so no harm done.

The dump reports (which I sent to MS) seem to indicate Nvidia drivers might have had something to do with it! .. I'm still using the installed drivers from day one of installing windows altough I notice there are newer ones available (WHQL tested) , but I think I'll wait to see what turns up via windows update!

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but I think I'll wait to see what turns up via windows update!
That's never a good idea, the ones that show up there are usually outdated already. You should rly get teh latest drivers always.
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unistall my nvidia drivers, use driversweeper to clean unwanted nvidia files left behind, restart and my explorer.exe will crash, restart into safe mode, reinstall nvidia drivers, issue is resolved, weird.

No matter what version of drivers, i can recreate this error every single time. cant screenshot it as my explorer is gone, this bug automatically get sent to microsoft anyway.

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That's never a good idea, the ones that show up there are usually outdated already. You should rly get teh latest drivers always.

Your absolutely right, and under normal circumstances I would be bang up to date! .. running the latest beta's usually ..

I'm just curious to see how long it takes Microsoft to get the latest ones through to update .. :)

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Speaking of the NVIDIA drivers- I have a problem. Yes the Pre-release NVIDIA windows update driver I have clear states its "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 (Prerelease - WDDM 1.0)". Its been the same one since the early 7000 builds. When I install the latest WHQL or any drivers that aren't in Windows Update, they cause NO BRIGHTNESS CONTROL on my Sony VAIO SZ-340. The hotkeys already don't work in 64-Bit Win7, I got used to that.. but when the brightness isn't even in Windows Mobility Center by pressing Windows+X key. There are only 6 panels on there, the brightness control is always missing. The latest 185.85 WHQL seems to speed up everything, but once again.. its lacking the proper .inf to include brightness settings. Also the other place where brightness control slider should be in is Power options, but its not there either. It seems like the NVIDIA official drivers aren't fully compatible. I use a modified .INF to install them. Thats the only way, or the driver doesn't show up in "Add Devices" in Device manager. If anyone knows a workaround, please post. This is already a known problem discussed on the laptop2go.com forums, thats the most active forum on laptop drivers it seems. None of the tips helped. So if anyone here on Neowin can provide some feedback, please do so, thanks!

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I've finally been able to duplicate the error, here is the log detail from the error when dragging a video file to media player classic:

Files that help describe the problem:

C:\Users\BrY\AppData\Local\Temp\WERF5DB.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml

C:\Users\BrY\AppData\Local\Temp\WER1896.tmp.appcompat.txt

C:\Users\BrY\AppData\Local\Temp\WER1AAA.tmp.WERDataCollectionFailure.txt

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