Vista Ultimate32 Memory Error

[ICQM Houston]

sometimes when i POWER OFF my pc the following error pops up:

"The instruction at 0x768b882c referenced memory at 0xffffffff. The memory
could not be read"

this error is NOT there when closing office applications, not on IE browser.

system is updated

 

[ICQM Houston]

seems like the band at the top of the dialog box that pops up refers to
"SidebarBroadcastWatcher: sidebar.exe - Application Error"

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Try selectively disabling applications in the Windows Sidebar to see if the
error ceases.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[ICQM Houston]

ty rick... i tried your suggestions and almost all the gadgets are thje culprit
- the WEATHER having the longest timeout. yet i need the WEATHER exe
so i change the timeout settings in the registry file and it did worked
excellente.

HKEY_local_machine > system > CurrentControlSet > control \
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout" --- by default this is set to 20000 (i beleived
this is in ms).

higher value will take the application / gadget to close longer. when
changed to lower value, applications closes faster and so the system. error
is now permanently gone (i hope)

 

[Rick Rogers]

Cool, thanks for the feedback and the solution.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com