XP runtime c++ thumbnail errors!

[Nic Gibson]

hi all,
this problem is driving me crazy! i've trawled the
internet, copious newsgroups, forums and KB's but can't
find a thing!
Problem: whenever a program attempts to access a folder
with 'thumbnails' set as the view option i get the
error 'Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library' with the
following text -

Runtime Error!
Program C:\(culprit program & location)
abnormal program termination

and I can't figure it out!!!
any ideas?

your help will be very much appreciated

kind regards
N Gibson

 

[purplehaz]

I think you left out the most important info........ what's the program and
location that causes it to crash?

 

[Nic Gibson]

it can be any program as far as i'm aware, it's happened
under messenger 6, wordXP, Internet Explorer 6, and even
Explorer.exe

it seems to be a deep rooted OS problem...

Nic G

 

[purplehaz]

Try setting hidden files and folders to show and protected files and folders
to show, then delete any thumbs.db files and see if that helps.