Windows Explorer Randomly Shutting Down
 

Windows XP

Lately when I've been in the middle of transferring a file (usually a video file) from my internal hard drive to an external hard drive, I'm getting the dreaded "Windows has encountered a problem sorry for the inconvenience" message and it shuts down explorer.

Any ideas chaps?

Could be a virus. What AV are you running?

AV as in media players?

Sorry if that's a retarded question.

AV

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• 1 Places
• 2 Science
• 3 Computing and electronics
• 4 Companies and organisations
• 5 Other uses
• 6 Av, aV, etc.

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[edit] Places

• Anguilla (FIPS 10-4 code and obsolete NATO digram)
• Antelope Valley, a desert region of northern Los Angeles County, California, in the US
• Province of Avellino, a province of Italy in the ISO 3166-2:IT code

[edit] Science

• Gold, in the field of numismatics (from the Latin spelling of Aurum, Avrvm)
• Annular velocity, in Fluid dynamics
• Apparent viscosity, in Fluid dynamics
• atrioventricular or arteriovenous in medicine, either

[edit] Computing and electronics

• AltaVista, a search engine
• Access violation in software
• Anti-virus, see Anti-virus software
• Avatar (computing), an icon representing an Internet use
• Audio and video connector, a cable to carry video and audio signals from a device, to a tv; in digital or analog format
• Av is a common abbreviation for aperture priority on a camera mode dial
• Alterac Valley, a player versus player instance dungeon in the MMORPG World of Warcraft
• Arcade Volleyball, a MS-DOS video game

[edit] Companies and organisations

• Avaya, a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange with symbol "AV"
• Avianca; AV is the IATA code for this airline
• Aston Villa, English football club
• The A.V. Club, the entertainment section of The Onion

[edit] Other uses

• Adult video, see Pornography or Pornographic film
• Artificial vagina, a sex-toy
• The Alternative Vote, another name for instant-runoff voting
• America Votes
• Angela Via, a singer
• Approval voting
• Property tax assessed value
• Audio-visual
• Authorised Version or King James Version of the Bible
• AV, the designation for "seaplane tender" in the United States Navy's ship classification system
• Avenue, see Road (Ave. is more frequent)
• Average
• Aviation, a military acronym or shorter version

[edit] Av, aV, etc.

• Av (month), a month in the Hebrew calendar
• Avar language
• A.V. (film), a 2005 Hong Kong film directed by Pang Ho-Cheung
• AV (cyclecar)

Ahhhhh. D'oh.

AVG (free version).

Have also used Kaspersky (free trial version) in recent times.

I call it 'Myrtle' if that helps. :shifty:

Not the greatest moment in KYR history.

FYI

The advice here http://mcpmag.com/Articles/2005/10/10/RightClick-Gone-Wrong.aspx?Page=1

solved my problem. Turns out it was due to a PDF converter I downloaded and it's 'right-click' feature wasn't entirely compatible with XP.