Windows Explorer error message.

[Darkness]

For some reason,(not too long after my last Windows
update), now when I try to open any folder on my desktop
or even "My Computer". I get a Windows explorer has
encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry
for the inconvenience" Then it will do its little error
reporting thing and then it will restart itself. Then I
am able to do open the folder. But the next time I try
opening a folder, I get the same procedure. Any ideas on
what is going on here?

 

[Darkness]

-----Original Message-----
For some reason,(not too long after my last Windows
update), now when I try to open any folder on my desktop
or even "My Computer". I get a Windows explorer has
encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry
for the inconvenience" Then it will do its little error
reporting thing and then it will restart itself. Then I
am able to do open the folder. But the next time I try
opening a folder, I get the same procedure. Any ideas on
what is going on here?
.

Also I recall something else that I did before this
started, which might of been really stupid, but I was
unaware that it could possibly cause problems. I put an
XBox game disc in the drive to see if I could get the
music tracks off the disk. This could be the initial
problem.
I went to the Event viewer and it came up with an
application pop-up before the error occurred and when I
hit the link for Windows help, they said that the
application pop-up was something with drivers not having
privileges. I think I'm just getting more confused. Also
in the event viewer, everytime the actual error occurs,
right after that are a bunch of events, like basically
windows going through a quick startup and then the event
log gets stoppped and restarted. The error on the event
viewer reads "The mrtRate service failed to start due to
the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified. "

Hopefully this gives all you intelligent people a little
more info, so you can possibly provide me with a
solution. Thanks

 

[CWatters]

I went to the Event viewer and it came up with an
application pop-up before the error occurred and when I
hit the link for Windows help, they said that the
application pop-up was something with drivers not having
privileges. I think I'm just getting more confused.

Double click on the error message in the log and use the button provided to
copy the error to the clipboard. Then paste it into a new message here.

 

[Darkness]

Here is the error
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 2/27/2004
Time: 12:16:00 AM
User: N/A
Computer: DARKNESS
Description:
Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2800.1221,
faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address
0x02224236.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 65 78 70 ure exp
0018: 6c 6f 72 65 72 2e 65 78 lorer.ex
0020: 65 20 36 2e 30 2e 32 38 e 6.0.28
0028: 30 30 2e 31 32 32 31 20 00.1221
0030: 69 6e 20 75 6e 6b 6e 6f in unkno
0038: 77 6e 20 30 2e 30 2e 30 wn 0.0.0
0040: 2e 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66 .0 at of
0048: 66 73 65 74 20 30 32 32 fset 022
0050: 32 34 32 33 36 0d 0a 24236..

 

[CWatters]

I think that error can have a lot of causes. This page recommends
re-installing XP...

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBO/tip7100/rh7193.htm

The repair installation process is well described here...

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm