[help] Windows Xp Sp1 Random Crashes

Hey,

Recently i posted that my icons were not displaying the right icon, and only the windows default. That is the least of my worries now. When i click on folders, randomly, explorer gives me an error report and shuts down. it happnes at other times too, but today it was crashing every other folder. Another problem is that when i try to play games, they crash because of explorer, and i just got the newest nVidia Drivers today to see if they would fix the problem but they didnt. I tried SFC /Scannow but thats asking for my windows sp1 disk which i do not have. Is there a way to fix this problem? Could the registry be causign this problem and if so, is there a freeware applcation that could fix it?

Thank You,

Pops

#197556

I wouldn't know where to have you begin.

I would need to see your system event logs to start with and some details regarding error messages, if any are displayed.

Also would need you dr.watson log file as well.

Anyway... sounds like you got a bug running around in there somewhere.

#197573

ok, how would i go about getting those logs?

#197610

Assuming it isn't a spyware kind of issue, something like that happened to me once. Unfortunately, I forget exactly what the problem was But it had something to do with something seemingly innocuous related to Internet Explorer (the browser.) It was like... not a favorite or a temporary file, but I think something stupid like that that shouldn't have been crashing (Windows) Explorer, but it was. And upgrading from IE 5 to 6 didn't help. Maybe something about the history... anyway, I found the problem surprisingly quickly searching for whatever error message I was getting (and it was a pretty generic error) so... see if there's anything on Google that looks familiar.

#197633

Have you been installing new updates, i.e. SP2? Make sure you update Windows Update to version 5, and then download and install the complete SP2 RC2 (also that you have a legit copy of XP). Updating a small section at a time can cause some problems. I had the same experience where explorer would crash if I click on some random folder.

I heard that if you have a pirated copy of XP, you won't be able to update to SP2. And if you have been updating with a pirated XP key, Microsoft has programmed the updates to erase data on your hard drive and then lock you from login in.

#197761

Thanks for the info on sp2, now tha i know that, i guess im not getting it. I hardly ever use windows update, and yesterday i tried scanning the registry for problems but it didn't work either

EDIT: Last week i installed IE 6 sp1 from an aol disk, there was an error during transfer, could that be the problem?

#197874

Here are my logfiles for explorer and IE6, the explorer crashes have started up again and they have been getting pretty frequent

logfile.txt

ie_6_install_logfile.txt

Attachment: logfile.txt

Attachment: ie_6_install_logfile.txt

#202490

Have you scanned your system for any viruses?

#202664

yes i have,all defs. updated. also i scanned with ad-aware. in the explorer.exe crash report, it includes a file called appcompat.txt every time

#202752

Originally posted by veritati@Aug 3 2004, 07:53 AM

I heard that if you have a pirated copy of XP, you won't be able to update to SP2.  And if you have been updating with a pirated XP key, Microsoft has programmed the updates to erase data on your hard drive and then lock you from login in.

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That was funny

It doesn't do anything, it installs just fine.

#202760

will sp2 fix my problem then?

#202770