"My Pictures" crashes Windows Explorer

[Guest]

Whenever I open up "My Pictures" in Vista, all I see are the generic images
for the file types (i.e. a flower or a few shapes or a landscape for .jpg
or.bmp or whatever). After a few seconds, I get an error message that says
"Windows Explorer has stopped working" then "Searching for a solution" then
"Windows Explorer is restarting." Then, everything flashes away except my
desktop image, and then everything's back except the Pictures folder. I'm
running a new version of Vista, I only bought the computer a few moths ago.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Cal Bear '66]

Go to Control Panel (Classic view) > Problem Reports and Solutions > Click the
"View problem history" link in the left hand blue pane > right click the problem
and select "View problem details" > in the lower left corner of the window,
click the "Copy to clipboard" link > paste in to a reply to this message thread.


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[Guest]

Here you go:

Product
Windows Explorer

Problem
Stopped working

Date
9/26/2007 9:02 AM

Status
Report Sent

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: explorer.exe
Application Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Application Timestamp: 4549b091
Fault Module Name: PhotoMetadataHandler.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bdaa
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00026086
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: d6aa
Additional Information 2: 550813108d42c370043e28bb37aac5af
Additional Information 3: d6aa
Additional Information 4: 550813108d42c370043e28bb37aac5af

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 523376472

 

[Dave]

You shouldn't be able to open "My Pictures" in Vista, as it's not really a
folder, but is a junction point. Do you mean "Pictures"?

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

The KB fix for this was published October 2nd, apparently--
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941649
=)