XP home edition has a bug in explorer.exe.

It only occurs when this is done from the root directory.

When you have Owner selected and do a sort, you get the "Windows has
encountered a problem..."

Is there a fix?

Does it also occur in XP Pro?

Thanks,
Andy

Mint wrote:
> XP home edition has a bug in explorer.exe.
>
> It only occurs when this is done from the root directory.
>
> When you have Owner selected and do a sort, you get the "Windows has
> encountered a problem..."

Fascinating. Whatever made you do that?

> Is there a fix?

I don't know. I guess it happens because hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys have
no owner, and it crashes when trying to sort them.

> Does it also occur in XP Pro?

Yes it does.

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On 10/25/2010 11:18 PM, Mint wrote:
> XP home edition has a bug in explorer.exe.
>
> It only occurs when this is done from the root directory.
>
> When you have Owner selected and do a sort, you get the "Windows has
> encountered a problem..."
>
> Is there a fix?
>
> Does it also occur in XP Pro?
>
> Thanks,

A known bug on XP, caused by empty owner & access violation on pagefile.sys.

John

"John John - MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On 10/25/2010 11:18 PM, Mint wrote:
>> XP home edition has a bug in explorer.exe.
>>
>> It only occurs when this is done from the root directory.
>>
>> When you have Owner selected and do a sort, you get the "Windows has
>> encountered a problem..."
>>
>> Is there a fix?
>>
>> Does it also occur in XP Pro?
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> A known bug on XP, caused by empty owner & access violation on
> pagefile.sys.
>
> John

Where am I supposed to be seeing something named "Owner" in the root
directory of Explorer??

I am apparently misunderstanding the question.
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Glen Ventura
MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
CompTIA A+
http://dts-l.net/

glee wrote:
> "John John - MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> On 10/25/2010 11:18 PM, Mint wrote:
>>> XP home edition has a bug in explorer.exe.
>>>
>>> It only occurs when this is done from the root directory.
>>>
>>> When you have Owner selected and do a sort, you get the "Windows has
>>> encountered a problem..."
>>>
>>> Is there a fix?
>>>
>>> Does it also occur in XP Pro?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>
>> A known bug on XP, caused by empty owner & access violation on
>> pagefile.sys.
>
> Where am I supposed to be seeing something named "Owner" in the root
> directory of Explorer??

Files in NTFS have numerous attributes. To see what the possibilities are,
right-click on the panel (in Windows Explorer) that has "Name" on it, and select
"More...". You'll see all possible attributes that you can display, and sort by,
in your system.

> I am apparently misunderstanding the question.

Right.

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"Patok" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> glee wrote:
>> "John John - MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> On 10/25/2010 11:18 PM, Mint wrote:
>>>> XP home edition has a bug in explorer.exe.
>>>>
>>>> It only occurs when this is done from the root directory.
>>>>
>>>> When you have Owner selected and do a sort, you get the "Windows
>>>> has
>>>> encountered a problem..."
>>>>
>>>> Is there a fix?
>>>>
>>>> Does it also occur in XP Pro?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> A known bug on XP, caused by empty owner & access violation on
>>> pagefile.sys.
>>
>> Where am I supposed to be seeing something named "Owner" in the root
>> directory of Explorer??
>
> Files in NTFS have numerous attributes. To see what the
> possibilities are, right-click on the panel (in Windows Explorer) that
> has "Name" on it, and select "More...". You'll see all possible
> attributes that you can display, and sort by, in your system.
>
>> I am apparently misunderstanding the question.
>
> Right.

Ahh....THAT "owner". He could have been a little more descriptive.....
Thanks.
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Glen Ventura
MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
CompTIA A+
http://dts-l.net/

"John D" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> glee wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >
> > Ahh....THAT "owner". He could have been a little more
> > descriptive.....
> > Thanks.
>
> Moving off topic ....... !
>
> Hi Glen
>
> I note there's a photograph of you here http://www.aumha.org/vsop.php
> (but *still* no 'bio'!)
>
> The link refers to AumHa VSOPs for 2006. At the bottom of the page it
> says "Awards are made in April of each year ..." but for the life of
> me I cannot find details of more up-to-date awards.
>
> Please can you point me in the right direction to find same?
>
> Thanks in advance

AumHa is Jim Eshelman's site, and he's been pre-occupied for some time
with both professional and personal activities, so there haven't been
any new or updated VSOP Awards for quite a while. Apparently the
current list is remaining as long as they are still active on the
site.....that group has remained about the same for a few years.

For the same reason, I was not able to submit a bio because only Jim is
able to add them, and he has largely given over admin tasks to a couple
of other moderators who do not have the permissions to add bio info. No
big deal....my bio would be boring anyway!
--
Glen Ventura
MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
CompTIA A+
http://dts-l.net/