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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: colecampbell666 on July 15, 2008, 11:44:48 am

Title: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 15, 2008, 11:44:48 am
Whenever I run VLC (0.8.6h) I get a "Send Error Report" for Windows Explorer. It doesn't do anything, but the start bar disappears and reappears, presumably because the process is restarted. It's getting annoying.

Scratch that, it happens whenever I close a Windows Explorer window.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: Topgun on July 15, 2008, 01:53:36 pm
you have a virus.
OR you messed up your windows stuff dlls ECT... AND you have a virus.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: blackhole on July 15, 2008, 02:09:45 pm
That, my good sir, is called screwing up your computer until its FUBAR.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 15, 2008, 02:11:32 pm
Naw, not a virus. I did a restore, and it works fine. Must've been something my family did while I was away.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: Topgun on July 15, 2008, 03:23:04 pm
OR you messed up your windows stuff dlls ECT...
:ha:
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 15, 2008, 03:56:46 pm
Must've been something my family did while I was away.
:ha:

It happened as soon as I got home.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: S-99 on July 15, 2008, 06:08:50 pm
Something else you can do while your family is away is LINUx :yes:
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 15, 2008, 08:21:14 pm
:wtf: My mom doesn't know how to use a PC as it stands. Although that would probably mean that she wouldn't notice anyways...

And besides, I'd need a bigger HDD for that, or to uninstall XP altogether. (Linux reads my 160 GB HDD, XP reads 32. If Linux is on reading 160, XP doesn't see the drive period.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: S-99 on July 15, 2008, 10:09:23 pm
Hmmm, yes repartitioning. And xp reads only 32gb out of the 160? That really sucks. How about you format with ntfs instead of fat32 and you won't have that 32gb limitation anymore in xp. It'd still require a reinstall of xp anyway, but hey, everything would all be working correctly, and you could toss linux on there anyway if you wanted.

Don't use fat32 :yes:
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: Stormkeeper on July 15, 2008, 10:19:15 pm
That, my good sir, is called screwing up your computer until its FUBAR.
:lol:

Wait till fubar sees that.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 16, 2008, 08:32:57 am
Hmmm, yes repartitioning. And xp reads only 32gb out of the 160? That really sucks. How about you format with ntfs instead of fat32 and you won't have that 32gb limitation anymore in xp. It'd still require a reinstall of xp anyway, but hey, everything would all be working correctly, and you could toss linux on there anyway if you wanted.

Don't use fat32 :yes:
I don't. I've used NTFS since conception, and I know that that would cause the problem.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: Stealth on July 16, 2008, 09:02:17 am
dude check your application and system logs...
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 16, 2008, 10:11:22 am
Told ya, it was fixed with a System Restore.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: Jeff Vader on July 16, 2008, 10:15:28 am
Now that this has been settled, we can derail from the topic a bit.

Whenever I run VLC (0.8.6h)
"i" has been released.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 16, 2008, 10:29:41 am
Yeah, but as with the rest, nothing has changed except for the reparation of bug 01g01gn643n.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: Jeff Vader on July 16, 2008, 10:52:22 am
Quote from: 0.8.6i release notes
Security updates:
 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)

Various bugfixes:
 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
   (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
    SAP services discovery, http control interface)
 * Updated Polish translation
Polish translation. You can't say no to that.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 16, 2008, 11:13:21 am
And galaktos-based audio.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: jr2 on July 17, 2008, 01:26:23 am
:wtf: My mom doesn't know how to use a PC as it stands. Although that would probably mean that she wouldn't notice anyways...

And besides, I'd need a bigger HDD for that, or to uninstall XP altogether. (Linux reads my 160 GB HDD, XP reads 32. If Linux is on reading 160, XP doesn't see the drive period.

Upgrade your BIOS and/or remove the 32GB size limit jumper on the Hard Disk.  Use GParted Live CD (google it) to repartition / modify existing partitions.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 17, 2008, 08:36:43 am
:facepalm: I've done every single thing listed there. This has to be the fourth time that I've mentioned in passing my broken HDD, and the fourth time you and S-99 have suggested these options. Nothing will fix it.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: Kosh on July 18, 2008, 09:52:23 am
Naw, not a virus. I did a restore, and it works fine. Must've been something my family did while I was away.


That doesn't mean much. A lot of viruses will hide in system restore to "re-plant" themselves after the restore is complete.
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 18, 2008, 10:15:42 am
Well I don't have any problems now, and AVG doesn't see anything. I've been nagging my mom to get NOD32 for months now, but she keeps saying "Next week", "Next Week".
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: jr2 on July 18, 2008, 01:37:36 pm
doesn't NOD32 have a trial?  Uninstall AVG, install NOD32, scan, see it finds nothing different than AVG, uninstall, re-install AVG.  ;)
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 18, 2008, 02:25:57 pm
Yeah, that'd probably make her cave. "Hey mom! The trial's up, you have to buy it now or you'll get ZOMGWTFBBQ viruses!"
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: S-99 on July 21, 2008, 12:38:27 am
Reminds me of people who i install avast for. I tell them 14 months from the time i installed and registered it for them, that they will need to register it again after 14 months. 14 months later, i get some calls and comments from my friends that avast sucks because it's not really free, and it wants you to buy it for further use. Not true as i showed them and reregistered one of my for avast for free. Reregistration with avast4home edition is always free, that's just the way they do it. It helps when people RTFM and and not skip any parts of it. I can't stress enough how the fact that people can't afford to not hear everything (reading and hearing) gets people mixed up in so many mistakes and incorrect assumptions and opinions. Just because they didn't want to read or hear the short documentation. Yeah there was strings attatched, but maybe they were good strings?
Title: Re: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem...
Post by: ssmit132 on July 23, 2008, 04:44:32 am
I've had this exact problem before. Well, it wasn't EVERY time a window closed, but that's when it principally happened. I assumed it was a dodgy update, but it got fixed without (IIRC) a restore.

You run Vista, cole?