My Pictures folder causing Explorer abend

[Jose F Guerra]

I have a 'My Pictures' folder on a secondary drive on a Dell 600 Mhz machine
with 512 MB of RAM. I am running Windows 2000 Service Pack 3. Whenever I
click on the 'My Pictures' folder (which has an icon that looks like a hard
drive icon instead of the regular folder icon) Explorer.exe abends with an
error message that says the following:

"The instruction at "0x66f69916" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The
memory could not be "read".

Click OK to terminate the program
Click CANCEL to debug the program"

After that, I can't do much of anything since explorer.exe will no longer
run and the Start Mennu freezes. I can reset everything by logging off so I
don't need to completely shut down.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

In Jose F Guerra <[email protected]>
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Then Kevin D4Dad added his reply at the bottom.

I have a 'My Pictures' folder on a secondary drive on a Dell 600 Mhz
machine with 512 MB of RAM. I am running Windows 2000 Service Pack
3. Whenever I click on the 'My Pictures' folder (which has an icon
that looks like a hard drive icon instead of the regular folder
icon) Explorer.exe abends with an error message that says the
following:

"The instruction at "0x66f69916" referenced memory at "0x00000000".
The memory could not be "read".

Click OK to terminate the program
Click CANCEL to debug the program"

After that, I can't do much of anything since explorer.exe will no
longer run and the Start Mennu freezes. I can reset everything by
logging off so I don't need to completely shut down.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Have you tried hitting Ctrl Alt Del bring up Task Manager on the Aplications
Tab click new Task and type explorer?