Explorer crashes in MSHTML.DLL after browsing .xml files

[Alex Z.]

My development box is a Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4
with all the latest patches, Visual Studio 6 SP5, Visual
Studio .Net 2003, Office 2003, XMLSpy 2004...

Problem: using the windows explorer to browse directories
of xml files, opening some of them, jumping back and forth
in different directories, eventually always makes the
windows explorer to crash in MSHTML.DLL. The stack looks
like:

MSHTML.DLL!_DecrementObjectCount() + 0x8

MSHTML.DLL!CBase:rivateRelease() + 0x32
MSHTML.DLL!CElement:rivateRelease() + 0x23
MSHTML.DLL!CStyleSheetPageArray::Release() + 0xa

MSHTML.DLL!CMarkup:estroySplayTree() - 0x2d6
MSHTML.DLL!CMarkup::UnloadContents() + 0x187
MSHTML.DLL!CMarkup::TearDownMarkup() + 0x4f
MSHTML.DLL!CDoc::UnloadContents() + 0x28d
MSHTML.DLL!CDoc:assivate() + 0x95
MSHTML.DLL!CBase:rivateRelease() + 0x32
MSHTML.DLL!PlainRelease() + 0x4e
SHELL32.DLL!CSFVFrame::_CleanUpOleObj() + 0x1b
SHELL32.DLL!CSFVFrame::_CleanUpOleObjAndDt() + 0xc

SHELL32.DLL!CSFVFrame::_CleanupOldDocObject() +
0x40
SHELL32.DLL!CSFVFrame::ShowExtView() + 0x86
SHELL32.DLL!CDefView:estroyViewWindow() + 0x49

SHDOCVW.DLL!CBaseBrowser2::ReleaseShellView() +
0x133
BROWSEUI.DLL!CCommonBrowser::ReleaseShellView() +
0x10
BROWSEUI.DLL!CShellBrowser2::ReleaseShellView() +
0x20
SHDOCVW.DLL!CBaseBrowser2::_SwitchActivationNow()
+ 0x7a
BROWSEUI.DLL!CCommonBrowser::_SwitchActivationNow
() + 0x10
BROWSEUI.DLL!CShellBrowser2::_SwitchActivationNow
() + 0xc
SHDOCVW.DLL!CBaseBrowser2::ActivatePendingView()
+ 0x141
BROWSEUI.DLL!CCommonBrowser::ActivatePendingView
() + 0x10
BROWSEUI.DLL!CShellBrowser2::ActivatePendingView
() + 0x12
BROWSEUI.DLL!CCommonBrowser::WndProcBS() + 0x1e

BROWSEUI.DLL!CShellBrowser2::WndProcBS() + 0xd9

BROWSEUI.DLL!IEFrameWndProc() + 0x51
USER32.DLL!_UserCallWinProc@20() + 0x18
USER32.DLL!_DispatchMessageWorker@8() + 0x2e4
USER32.DLL!_DispatchMessageW@4() + 0xb
BROWSEUI.DLL!TimedDispatchMessage() + 0x20
BROWSEUI.DLL!BrowserThreadProc() + 0x1fd
BROWSEUI.DLL!BrowserProtectedThreadProc() + 0x44

KERNEL32.DLL!_BaseThreadStart@8() + 0x52

Has anybody else had this kind of problem? Another strange
thing is that the search tool cannot find C:\WINNT\system32
\MSHTML.DLL even though I explicitly set it to search for
MSHTML.DLL in that directory -- it tells me that no result
is found. The version of that file is 6.00.2800.1400.

Thanks.
- alex

 

[Tom Hartnett]

Yes. I have the same problem. I'm running W2K Professional with SP4,
VS 6 SP5, VS.NET 2003. I haven't found a resolution yet and it is
very annoying.