"explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"
"explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"
(OP)
Windows Explorer breaks frequently and for no apparent reason. A message box with the following text appears: -
"explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.
You will need to restart the program
An error log is being created."
My recent clean Win2K installation is at SP3 and with all Microsoft updates.
Any ideas anybody?
"explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.
You will need to restart the program
An error log is being created."
My recent clean Win2K installation is at SP3 and with all Microsoft updates.
Any ideas anybody?
RE: "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"
it was using windows 2000 after some investigation i find out that GATOR and other spyware programs were runing on the background..
I aninstall them using a free utility called ad-aware ( http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ )
the error afterwords was gone ...
try that maybe its gone a solve your problem 2
if not at least you are gone a have a cleaner system
RE: "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"
Thanks for your thoughts guys.
RE: "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"
I have since installed SP4 and WS_FTP Explorer now works great.
Please note that this problem was not due to Ipswitch's WS_FTP product and was almost certainly caused by a bug in Win2000 that has been corrected in SP4.
Since installing SP4, my Win2000 installation has been transformed and is now as reliable as I had originally hoped when upgrading from Win98SE.
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I have had IMesh for a while and guess that this maybe the problem so uninstalled that, no joy. Another forum stated that I remove msbb.exe from the reg file which I have done but it keeps coming back Like magic.
Please note I am not an IT techi but have aquired the responsibility in this small company because I can change a printer cartridge!
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Thanx
Double0
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Link to the Microsoft web site, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads and then look under featured downloads at the right hand side of the page.
Select the option called 'Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Network Install for IT Professionals'.
This option is the one I successfully used for my installation of Win2000 SP4. You will need a quick Internet connection as the download is 129 megabytes in size.
You will end up with an exe file on your system and while running it, you will be asked to accept Microsoft's conditions. There seems to be a loose concensus in Tek-tips that this way of installing SP4 works better than the express method.
RE: "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"
Using my computer or explorer after I drop down 4 levels of folders when I try to register a dlll i get the message about exlorer generated errors , sometimes it loses my active desktop afterwards.
Nothing seems to cure it, until today I was also getting msimn.exe causing errors, not sure if related to first problem, but recreating outlook identities as paer a microsoft kba 258034 appears to have cured that.
anyone got any more ideas.
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Good Luck,
Steve.
RE: "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=326612
RE: "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"
Error Message When You Start Windows Explorer: Explorer.exe Has Generated Errors and Will Be Closed by Windows
The problem seems to be caused by Internet Explorer 6.
Check out the link below. 100% cure for me.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319124
RE: "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"
RE: "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"
I don't think this has been sorted in Win2K SP4.
I have just installed W2k pro with service pack 4 and installed Ws FTP Pro version 6.02 with the WS_Ftp pro explorer interface and it still gave me the error.
I got around it by uninstalling the ws_ftp pro exlplorer part.
Regards
Jat
RE: "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"
Others worked around the issue by creating a shortcut that ran C:\Winnt\system32\explorer.exe /n, /e, C:\ instead of using the default explorer icon.
In short there does not seem to be one fix for everyone. I wish I could remember in which forum there was an extremely long discussion on this issue.
joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."
RE: "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"
RE: "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"
RE: "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"
My problem was USB related. I found that uninstalling the USB printer drivers (the printer wasn't even connected) fixed MY issue. I was trying to install printer software for a new printer on our network when I kept getting the explorer.exe has generated errors. I did check into all the possibilites listed in this thread and thank you all for the ideas. I thought it most interesting though when I went here searching for updated printer drivers http://office.support.xerox.com/SRVS/cgi-bin/webcgi.cgi and it says "NOTE: this driver is designed for INTEL based computers." BTW, mine is AMD based and the drivers work fine after I uninstalled my USB device. Thanks claudeo
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RE: "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"
explorer.exe - Application Error
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The instruction at "0x02c43040" referenced memory at "0x02c43040". The memory could not be "read".
Click on OK to terminate the program
Click on CANCEL to debug the program
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OK Cancel
RE: "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows"