a repeated explorer crash I cant manage to solve

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nikos albanopoulos

Hi
I am running win2k/service pack 4 on a pIII for 4 years now, no major
problems.
These days I face a problem and would appreciate any help: When I try to
open the control panel then I got a message that explorer.exe has
generated errors etc and an error log is created. The problem will
insist regardless any step I took (reinstalled sp4, checked for viruses
with up to date nav, checked disk, defraged disk etc.) I know that you
will ask "and what the error
log says?" but -sorry, I don't know where to look for it.

So is there any suggestion? The problems occurs only when I try to
access control panel, in no other case.

Thanks in advance
Nikos
 
Hi
I am running win2k/service pack 4 on a pIII for 4 years now, no major
problems.
These days I face a problem and would appreciate any help: When I try to
open the control panel then I got a message that explorer.exe has
generated errors etc and an error log is created. The problem will
insist regardless any step I took (reinstalled sp4, checked for viruses
with up to date nav, checked disk, defraged disk etc.) I know that you
will ask "and what the error
log says?" but -sorry, I don't know where to look for it.

So is there any suggestion? The problems occurs only when I try to
access control panel, in no other case.

Thanks in advance
Nikos
Click to expand...

I have the same problem at work on a P3, 1 GIG ECC RAM (good quality
stuff), Asus mobo, with onboard SIS video and a new WD HDD. I have
minimal software and the problem persists. You are only the second
person I've ssn have this problem, what is your hardware?
 
I have the same problem at work on a P3, 1 GIG ECC RAM (good quality
stuff), Asus mobo, with onboard SIS video and a new WD HDD. I have
minimal software and the problem persists. You are only the second
person I've ssn have this problem, what is your hardware?
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Assus board as well (cuv4x, bit older of course)
The problem emerged a week ago and persists, something is off balance,
but what?
 
First, does the problem happen in safe mode? If not, could be a driver
issue.

If the problem still happens in safe mode, you may have a corrupt Control
Panel Applet. Most programs that install an item into the Control Panel do
it via a CPL file in the c:\windows\system32 folder. Try renaming a few of
the *.cpl (to *.cpl.old) in that folder to see if you can find a culprit. If
its a windows cpl, you may be able to extract the original off your cd. If
its a 3rd party one, reinstall the application that put it there.

Good Luck. . .
 
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