Vista Keeps quitting in a certain directory

Not sure where to put this so here goes...

I recently installed a 1Tb Hitachi Hard Drive. As far as I can tell, i
is working fine. I have filled half of it with with the contents of
smaller drives and all the content copied over flawlessly.

However, now, when I go to one paricular directory on the drive, I ge
a RUN32DLL error which causes windows explorere to shut down an
restart, srambling my quick launch, task bar, systray and desktop t
unrecognizable condition which I have to spend forever straightenin
out

I don't know that the drive has anything to do with it or if it's
coincidence that it just started happening after I installed the drive

Any ideas what could be causing this? I already did a virus scan wit
Avast and Spybot. Nothing there. I tried a scandisk on reboot, n
problems found. What gives

Thanks
Keefer :confused

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A stab in the dark...
The folder may have a reserved name.
What is the name of the folder?

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On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:40:05 +0000, in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general, keeferzjr
<> wrote:

>
>Not sure where to put this so here goes....
>
>I recently installed a 1Tb Hitachi Hard Drive. As far as I can tell, it
>is working fine. I have filled half of it with with the contents of 3
>smaller drives and all the content copied over flawlessly.
>
>However, now, when I go to one paricular directory on the drive, I get
>a RUN32DLL error which causes windows explorere to shut down and
>restart, srambling my quick launch, task bar, systray and desktop to
>unrecognizable condition which I have to spend forever straightening
>out!
>
>I don't know that the drive has anything to do with it or if it's a
>coincidence that it just started happening after I installed the drive.
>
>Any ideas what could be causing this? I already did a virus scan with
>Avast and Spybot. Nothing there. I tried a scandisk on reboot, no
>problems found. What gives?
>
>Thanks,
>Keefer

keeferzjr wrote:
> Not sure where to put this so here goes....
>
> I recently installed a 1Tb Hitachi Hard Drive. As far as I can tell, it
> is working fine. I have filled half of it with with the contents of 3
> smaller drives and all the content copied over flawlessly.
>
> However, now, when I go to one paricular directory on the drive, I get
> a RUN32DLL error which causes windows explorere to shut down and
> restart, srambling my quick launch, task bar, systray and desktop to
> unrecognizable condition which I have to spend forever straightening
> out!
>
> I don't know that the drive has anything to do with it or if it's a
> coincidence that it just started happening after I installed the drive.
>
> Any ideas what could be causing this? I already did a virus scan with
> Avast and Spybot. Nothing there. I tried a scandisk on reboot, no
> problems found. What gives?
>
> Thanks,
> Keefer
>
>
In XP, eplorer would crash when browsing a directory if certain file
types were present - explorer tried to make a thumbnail and crashed.

Don't know if this is relevant in Vista...

G

had a similar problem and it was a corrupt file in the directory

go to explorer , folder option

tick the box always show as icon never thumbnails

fixed my issue and i was able to delete the corrupt file

hope this helps


"keeferzjr" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Not sure where to put this so here goes....
>
> I recently installed a 1Tb Hitachi Hard Drive. As far as I can tell, it
> is working fine. I have filled half of it with with the contents of 3
> smaller drives and all the content copied over flawlessly.
>
> However, now, when I go to one paricular directory on the drive, I get
> a RUN32DLL error which causes windows explorere to shut down and
> restart, srambling my quick launch, task bar, systray and desktop to
> unrecognizable condition which I have to spend forever straightening
> out!
>
> I don't know that the drive has anything to do with it or if it's a
> coincidence that it just started happening after I installed the drive.
>
> Any ideas what could be causing this? I already did a virus scan with
> Avast and Spybot. Nothing there. I tried a scandisk on reboot, no
> problems found. What gives?
>
> Thanks,
> Keefer
>
>
> --
> keeferzjr
> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
>

What's the fault data for that specific crash according t othe Problem
Reports and Solutions control panel?
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#bucket

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"keeferzjr" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Not sure where to put this so here goes....
>
> I recently installed a 1Tb Hitachi Hard Drive. As far as I can tell, it
> is working fine. I have filled half of it with with the contents of 3
> smaller drives and all the content copied over flawlessly.
>
> However, now, when I go to one paricular directory on the drive, I get
> a RUN32DLL error which causes windows explorere to shut down and
> restart, srambling my quick launch, task bar, systray and desktop to
> unrecognizable condition which I have to spend forever straightening
> out!
>
> I don't know that the drive has anything to do with it or if it's a
> coincidence that it just started happening after I installed the drive.
>
> Any ideas what could be causing this? I already did a virus scan with
> Avast and Spybot. Nothing there. I tried a scandisk on reboot, no
> problems found. What gives?
>
> Thanks,
> Keefer
>
>
> --
> keeferzjr
> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
>

I have tried all the suggested solutions listed here with no change. A
for the Problem Report Control PAnel, it is not listed in there for som
reason. THere is no mention of it at all. The name of the directory i
F:\movies\comedy. I don't think that is a reserved name. I'm stil
stumped. thanks for all the help
Keefe

keeferzjr;1201617 Wrote:
> Not sure where to put this so here goes...
>
> I recently installed a 1Tb Hitachi Hard Drive. As far as I can tell, i
> is working fine. I have filled half of it with with the contents of
> smaller drives and all the content copied over flawlessly.
>
> However, now, when I go to one paricular directory on the drive, I ge
> a RUN32DLL error which causes windows explorere to shut down an
> restart, srambling my quick launch, task bar, systray and desktop t
> unrecognizable condition which I have to spend forever straightenin
> out
>
> I don't know that the drive has anything to do with it or if it's
> coincidence that it just started happening after I installed the drive
>
> Any ideas what could be causing this? I already did a virus scan wit
> Avast and Spybot. Nothing there. I tried a scandisk on reboot, n
> problems found. What gives
>
> Thanks
> Keefer :confused

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