TheDude5000 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 (edited) Not any folder. In fact, only one. I woke up yesterday morning, and when I logged into Windows I noticed this particular folder which I use virtually everyday, would crash Explorer either when I minimized, or even if I just left it open. Then after that, when Explorer restarts and I re-open it, the whole folder, over a thousand files, is completely jumbled around and re-organized. So what'd I do? I did a System Restore. This worked. The folder worked flawlessly. So then, the next day around 4:30 AM, I shut down, go to sleep. I come back on today, same problem. Do a System Restore to yesterdays checkpoint. Now it's working again. So now it seems whenever I shut down, restart, or maybe even log off, this folder is going to screw up, and I'm gonna have to do a System Restore. It just doesn't give me a comfortable feeling screwing with reg entries everyday to fix one problem, so what can I do here? I'm gonna take a chance and restart right now. On one hand if it crashes, I can give you the Windows error report which I think mentioned a dll, but don't remember. On the other hand...I'll just be super lucky and won't have to worry about this. Here goes. EDIT: Rebooted. So far, no problems. When I start up Windows again tomorrow, I'll post back in here with an update for the situation. Hopefully, there won't be an update and everything will continue to work normally. Edited January 16, 2008 by TheDude5000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otter Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Sounds like there's a bad sector on the harddrive to me. You defrag lately? Use voptxp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDude5000 Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 (edited) EDIT: XFIRE! AppName: explorer.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.3156 ModName: xfcodec.dllModVer: 1.0.0.29580 Offset: 00005df2 xfcodec.dll is causing the crash. The latest XFire update uses this codec/dll for videos. This folder is FULL of videos. So now what do I do? Edited January 18, 2008 by TheDude5000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slamman Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 When you have access to lost files, the idea is to back the friggin things up, I'd do that rather then risk a situation like that, however, with all my Windows setups, I never had that issue myself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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