Messerschmitt Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 (edited) Greetings. I come back with another little problem. Not so often I get this Data Execution Prevention, caused by Explorer.exe. It always shows up after the computer finished booting up in windows, and I do something (Open Firefox, Explorer, etc). If it dosen't show up by then, the whole session it will not show up again. Once I press ok, the standard error that windows encountered a problem and need to close, shuts down explorer.exe (you lose the taskbar and all) for a few seconds then comes back up.Is there a way to run a diagnostic for it and figure out what's up with it?Thanks Edited May 12, 2009 by Messerschmitt
cluberti Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 You have an explorer shell extension causing the error when it tries to load and hook explorer.exe if it only happens once for the life of the session. You can see your hooks with a combination of Sysinternals' Autoruns and Nirsoft's ShellExView.
buckdog05 Posted May 15, 2009 Posted May 15, 2009 It might be a virus, but I saw a computer that was having a problem like this because of a bug in HP Wireless Printer software. An update from the HP website fixed the problem. It was pretty obnoxious, considering I reformated the computer before realizing that the HP Printer Program was the culprit.It was also giving me an error about "Dr. Watson," believe, are you also getting this?
Messerschmitt Posted May 22, 2009 Author Posted May 22, 2009 It might be a virus, but I saw a computer that was having a problem like this because of a bug in HP Wireless Printer software. An update from the HP website fixed the problem. It was pretty obnoxious, considering I reformated the computer before realizing that the HP Printer Program was the culprit.It was also giving me an error about "Dr. Watson," believe, are you also getting this?No, I dont get any error about Dr.Watson. I just get an error for windows explorer and windows encountered a problem and needs to close
Messerschmitt Posted May 23, 2009 Author Posted May 23, 2009 Ok, I have finally installed both Autoruns and ShellExView... But I am not sure what am I looking for.
Guest Posted June 13, 2009 Posted June 13, 2009 In Autoruns, click Options > Hide Windows and Microsoft entries, look at the shell extensions loaded in the Explorer tab. You need to click refresh after hiding the MS entries,
Messerschmitt Posted June 18, 2009 Author Posted June 18, 2009 Ok, hided those 2, clicked refresh, this is what I have. This is a few minutes after I got again the Data Execution Prevention very shortly after my PC booted up.HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\Components 0 <---Only says File Not Found: About:HomeHKLM\Software\Classes\*\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers Acronis True Image Shell Context Menu Extension Adobe.Acrobat.ContextMenu Kaspersky Anti-Virus TuneUp Shredder Shell Extension WinRAR HKLM\Software\Classes\Directory\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers TuneUp Disk Space Explorer Shell Extension TuneUp Shredder Shell Extension WinRAR HKLM\Software\Classes\Directory\Shellex\DragDropHandlers WinRAR HKLM\Software\Classes\Directory\Shellex\CopyHookHandlers FileZilla3CopyHook HKLM\Software\Classes\Folder\Shellex\ColumnHandlers PDF Shell Extension HKLM\Software\Classes\Folder\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers Acronis True Image Shell Context Menu Extension Adobe.Acrobat.ContextMenu Kaspersky Anti-Virus WinRAR HKLM\Software\Classes\Directory\Background\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers ACE HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Approved Acronis True Image Shell Context Menu Extension Acronis True Image Shell Extension Adobe.Acrobat.ContextMenu Catalyst Context Menu extension Display Panning CPL Extension <---Again says file not found: deskpan.dllHyperTerminal Icon Ext Logitech Setpoint Extension Logitech Setpoint Extension TuneUp Disk Space Explorer Shell Extension TuneUp Shredder Shell Extension TuneUp Theme Extension Web traffic protection statistics WinRAR shell extension Anyway to figure out which of these shell's causes the error?
Guest Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 Try disabling a few and see if the problem goes away. Rinse, repeat.
cluberti Posted June 19, 2009 Posted June 19, 2009 Agreed - the 50/50 rule to start, then start narrowing down from there.
Messerschmitt Posted June 20, 2009 Author Posted June 20, 2009 Ok will start do that. So disable 1 by 1 until I get the error then go for the next yes? Also if disabling with Autorun, how do I go so that at the next boot-up the options will be remembered. On save, it just saves it as a file
Guest Posted June 20, 2009 Posted June 20, 2009 I would disable more than one or you will be there all day.The options are remembered. See below.When you uncheck one, it deletes the original and writes a registry key named disabled... as a backup and so that autoruns can read that it's disabled.
Messerschmitt Posted June 20, 2009 Author Posted June 20, 2009 Yep, just noticed what I un-checked was remembered. And well, my problem is that this DEP is quite randomly, so what I will do is just take my time. I will leave something un-checked until I will get it again, and then move to the next. It will take maybe up to a few weeks. I will just bump the thread then.Anyway, cheers for all the help you 2 provided! Much appriciated.Also if ShellExView can help into this somehow, let me know and how
Messerschmitt Posted July 22, 2009 Author Posted July 22, 2009 Hi.I'm bumping this up because I ended un-checking ALL the components under Explorer in Autoruns, and I still got the Data Execution Prevention.
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