Explorer.exe - application error

[JohhnyBGood]

I am really mad. I followed MS instructions and auto
updated Win Xp Prof. with Sp2 and now any non MS program
with an icon i the directory for exe will not run..

Explorer.exe - application error.
The instructions @ 0x0227415b reference memory at #
0x00000000. The memory could not be written.

Click Ok to terminate
Click Cancel to debug

I have shut down the firewall but still no go.
Can't find solutions anywhere. HELP PLEASE.
I need my programs.

Thanks

 

[Don Taylor]

I am really mad. I followed MS instructions and auto
updated Win Xp Prof. with Sp2 and now any non MS program
with an icon i the directory for exe will not run..

Explorer.exe - application error. ....
I have shut down the firewall but still no go.
Can't find solutions anywhere. HELP PLEASE.
I need my programs.

Again and again, people are reporting very similar problems
with Windows Explorer. From the number of similar reports
I'm guessing there are at least a couple of lurking bugs in
Windows Explorer.

Try booting in safe mode, see if that works.
Try creating a new user, switch to the new user, see if that works.

One or both these seem to have worked for some folks. They aren't
a solution but they might provide clues about what works and what
doesn't.

You can escalate to Microsoft support
support.microsoft.com/windowsxpsp2
and give them all the details you can.
When I did this they concluded "some file was corrupted and I
was to repair windows=put it back to the original state and
reinstall SP2 in Safe Mode, twice." Before I did this I found
the new user work-around worked for me, that makes the corrupted
file diagnosis a little less likely. I asked them about this
and have heard nothing from them yet.

(or if you want to try what has been suggested a thousand times
in the newsgroup, see if it is viruses or spyware or you just
haven't defragged the drive enough times for a miracle to occur)
If you find these actually do something for you please let others
know, but thus far nobody seems to have reported this.