I have reformatted and reinstalled Win2000 ver 5.00.2195 (Service Pack 4), but constantly get the error: "Explorer has generated errors and will be closed by Windows...".
In Event Viewer, it alternately gives the Dr. Watson error, "The application, explorer.exe, generated an application error The error occurred on 09/01/2004 @ 18:38:03.245 The exception generated was c0000005 at address 77C72A84 (Ordinal169)". Event: 4097.
....Appl
0008: 69 63 61 74 69 6f 6e 20 ication
0010: 65 78 63 65 70 74 69 6f exceptio
0018: 6e 20 6f 63 63 75 72 72 n occurr
0020: 65 64 3a 0d 0a 20 20 20 ed:..
0028: 20 20 20 20 20 41 70 70 App
0030: 3a 20 65 78 70 6c 6f 72 : explor
0038: 65 72 2e 65 78 65 20 28 er.exe (
0040: 70 69 64 3d 39 33 32 29 pid=932)
then the Winlogon error: "The shell stopped unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted". Event 1002.
Following this, all Windows Explorer/My Computer windows close - no other application windows are affected. This happens about 2 or 3 times an hour, on an average.
Happens when I:
- cut and paste files in Explorer
- close Explorer windows
Anyone?? I want to fix this thing once and for all. Thanks.