Windows Explorer Closes Unexpectedly

[Guest]

When I attempt to use the Windows Explorer to look at files on my hard drive
it will suddenly close without warning and with no error message. I also
seems to reset my desktop icons and I lose some of the task bar icons. Any
ideas??

 

[Guest]

check the event viewer for any messages

cheers

billy

 

[Don Taylor]

check the event viewer for any messages

cheers
billy
"Raphiki" wrote:

Unfortunately it is extremely unlikely that Windows Explorer will
leave any thing for the event viewer. My belief is that this is
intentional, almost all crashes silently restart Windows Explorer
and leave not a trace.

It appears there isn't even any documented way to capture the crash.

 

[MAP]

The few times that explorer.exe crashed on me their wasn't anything in the
event viewer to lend a clue.So you may be on to something.

"My belief is that this is intentional"

May be so but then again, if explorer crashes how can explorer write an
event as too why?
I think that I'll ponder this later over a beer.

 

[Guest]

Nothing in the event viewer. Maybe this is a "feature".

 

[Don Taylor]

The few times that explorer.exe crashed on me their wasn't anything in the
event viewer to lend a clue.So you may be on to something.

May be so but then again, if explorer crashes how can explorer write an
event as too why?
I think that I'll ponder this later over a beer.

In the same way that all the other Dr. Watson and other catastrophic
failures catch and log failures, by the programmers having put something
in the code to catch the failure, rather than intentionally hiding it.

 

[Don Taylor]

Nothing in the event viewer. Maybe this is a "feature".

As I expected. Most people didn't even know Windows Explorer existed
until SP2 was released. Then the number of crashes and problems
reported mushroomed. And there have been extremely few cases where
this was really actually diagnosed. There isn't even a little tool
that scans the system and points out problems that will cause this.