Memory errors in explorer.exe when browsing jpegs

[pkananen]

I have a large number of jpegs from my digicam organized in folders. When browsing these folders and opening them, I am getting tons of memory errors. It sucks! I get an errors that says the memory cannot be read or accessed. Sometimes I get them, sometimes I don't......running xp pro with rig in sig.

i do have photo shop album loaded and these images tagged in there. That program also has lots of memory errors at times also.

Oh, I do have RAM set at cls of 2, kingston value ram. This may seem like a bit much, but all my games and such handle it fine.

 

[NogginBoink]

Could you be a little less helpful to us?

How bout the OS you're running and the error message, please.

 

[pkananen]

well, the op sys was stated in the first post....i'll try to dig up an error message.

actually, today i have only gotten the windows message "explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close"

 

[kylef]

Crashes in explorer.exe are almost ALWAYS a result of a broken 3rd party plug-in DLL. Typically these get installed as part of some software application without your knowledge (or simply called "shell integration").

The next time you get a crash notification, see if you can click on "Details" and have it tell you what .dll is causing Explorer.exe to crash.

Once you find this out, you can attempt to either:
1) Uninstall the application that originally installed the fatal DLL
2) Re-install the application that originally installed the fatal DLL (hoping that it just got corrupted somehow)
3) Remove the fatal DLL from your system entirely by running "regsvr32 /u dllname.dll" and then deleting it!

Let me know if you have problems with these steps...