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DEP closes windows explorer when I try to view C drive

by Shaggydog2000 Aug 5, 2007 6:10AM PDT

Whenever I try to open my C drive in thumbnail view, DEP closes down windows explorer and freezes up. I opened up the folder in all the other views, and it worked just fine. I updated Norton 360 and ran it, and it found no viruses. I tried the windows malware finder, and it didn't find anything either. I even opened the direct sub-folders and set them to the thumbnail view and they behaved just fine except for the Program Files folder. That one also made the DEP close down explorer. Is there any way to get the logs for DEP and figure out which program is causing the problems?

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DEP? Whats DEP?
by Me, Myself and You Aug 5, 2007 6:57AM PDT

Data Execution Prevention?

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Some things don't like DEP.
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Aug 5, 2007 7:46AM PDT
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Half fixed it
by Shaggydog2000 Aug 5, 2007 8:07AM PDT

I deleted a few programs that were unnecessary, and noticed the AOL 9.0 folder that I've never used was giving me some problems when I tried to look at it as thumbnails also. Now that that is gone, I can view the Program Files folder as thumbnails no problem, but then I go up to the C drive, and it DEP still causes it to crash. I think I have it narrowed down to the WINDOWS folder. When I open that as thumbnails, it causes DEP to crash too. Any suggestions?

Oh, and DEP is Data Execution Prevention.

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You can unregister a picture renderer to help.
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Aug 5, 2007 9:20AM PDT

Explorer has "issues" with rendering images and avi files. It's well discussed so I'll just skip to a quick fix. Yes, the thumbnails don't show but at least we don't crash.

REMOVE THE DEFAULT IMAGE VIEWER IN WINDOWS ME/XP.
This tweak works in Windows Me/XP, I have not try it in Windows NT/2000 yet, because i don't have that OS, you can try it if you have.
*This tweak does not work in Windows 95/98
To remove the Windows default Image Viewer, first:
Click Start Menu
Select Run menu
Type "cmd", (for Windows Me, type "command")
Then type "regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll" to unregister this dll. This will stop it from previewing any picture that it support, e.g. JPEG, Bitmap, GIF....
* Before perform this tweak, make sure that you have the alternative Image Viewer installed in you windows e.g. ACDsee, FireGraphics... because once you do this tweak without that application, you can't open and view your image anymore! So, to undo it, type "regsvr32 shimgvw.dll" in command prompt.

From somewhere on the net...

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