Error on GDIPLUS.DLL

[John Smith]

I recently rebuilt (a clean install) my Dell Inspiron 660m with
Windows XP SP2. It has an ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility video card. For
some reason, when I try to view a folder that contains more than six
or so icons, explorer.exe crashes on module gdiplus.dll. Furthermore,
if I try to browse the folder via Internet Explorer, it also crashes
iexplorer.exe on module gdiplus.dll (the full error log for both from
event viewer is below).

I have all the latest Windows patches, DirectX 9.0c, and the latest
drivers from ATI.

I've researched this problem on Google and Google Groups, and the
answer seems to be to reinstall Windows. However, I want to be able to
resolve this issue without reinstalling. Is that possible?


*** ERROR LOG ***
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 1/13/2005
Time: 7:31:03 PM
User: N/A
Description:
Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.2180, faulting
module gdiplus.dll, version 5.1.3102.2180, fault address 0x0014e28f.

*** ERROR LOG ***
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 1/13/2005
Time: 6:09:11 PM
User: N/A
Description:
Faulting application iexplore.exe, version 6.0.2900.2180, faulting
module gdiplus.dll, version 5.1.3102.2180, fault address 0x0014e28f.

 

[Guest]

I also got this problem last year with ATI Radeon 8500. I think ATI, should
do more research on their drivers 'coz the VDO cards are good but their
drivers aren't good enough.

I suggest you to go to ATI website, report your problem to their manufactory
and go to customer care and search for your answer. or try this link as I
search for you :
http://search.ati.com/NAsearch.asp?...Support&Start=&Total=&Stat=New&go.x=15&go.y=9

Now I change to use Nvidia Geforce 4 FX5500, it's cheaper and work fine.

 

[Kelly]

http://groups-beta.google.com/group...xm=12&as_maxy=2005&num=100&as_scoring=d&hl=en

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=GDIPLUS.DLL&btnG=Google+Search

--
All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[John Smith]

I was able to reproduce the error on four other machines running XP
and SP2 (with Office 2003 SP1). However, I could not reproduce the
error on an XP machine with SP and Officd 2003 SP1.

Someone at another forum pointed out that this hotfix might be part of
the problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;833987, but
I'm not so sure . . .