Not sure where to put this question...

[Nakatomi2010]

So... The story thus far....

I decided to do a format and reload on my media server and staple in the Media Center components ala Ultimate XP in the Media Center area... So, that's done and my computer pretty much believes it is MCE2005, right down to the remote desktop login window.. Pretty spiffy...

Anyways....

In order to make this whole "Media Server" thing work I basically use 2 accounts, one for display, and one for working...

The display account is basically what shows up on the TV, and is what you use to watch movies, TV shows, etc etc...

The second account I log into remotely using the concurrent connection tweak, thus allowing me to run downloads in the background on the machine while watching movies and stuff without sacrificing screen relestate due to crappy resolutions (I thought, and still do think this was a wise idea)

Now, while I've got the proper timeserv.dll file, as I CAN log in remotely and concurrently using the two accounts... However, once logged in I get these explorer.exe errors, and while they annoying, they're not completely detrimental to what I do, that is to say the explorer.exe errors only affect the remote user (Not the person watching a movie), and they don't cause any downloads, movie editing, etc etc, going on in the background to fail, it's just the UI resets itself...

And it does this constant, one of those windows that says "Want to send this information to microsoft?" pops up and I hit Don't Send and the UI resets, if I don't hit it, it stays ther without issue and I can use it normally, but it's damned annoying....

Anyways... BEFORE the format and reload the ATi, Microsoft OneCare, VIA Raidtool, Quicktime, X-Mystique audio, and iMon softwares all start pretty much on login... AFTER the format and reload, the Media Center components are now also present... So I doubt it's the media center components causing the issues...

Thoughts?

[cluberti]

What exactly are the explorer errors? And do you have Dr. Watson complete dumps of the process crashing? Run drwtsn32 from the command prompt and configure it for a full memory dump, and the next time explorer crashes it should create a complete Dr. Watson dump in the path specified - post that here (or email it to me) and I'll tell you what's crashing explorer.exe.

[LLXX]

Click "To see what data this error report contains, click here" message in the error report window, then choose "To view technical information about the error report click here" and you should see the machine state dump... drwtsn32 shouldn't need to be used for this...

[cluberti]

The "Click Here" links only show the module faulting - it doesn't give stack information in case we need to walk back to find the first-chance or the failed call. The module in the links is usually a victim, rather than a cause. So yes, Dr. Watson should be checked, just in case.

[Nakatomi2010]

Well, it appears to have gone away for now... Figures, but now BitTornado keep crashing when I close it... Not that it matters, the download completes successfully so I didn't lose anything, but ugh.... Anomolies....

[cluberti]

Well, could you run dependancy walker against explorer.exe and post all of the files explorer.exe loads?

http://www.dependencywalker.com/

[bledd]

go into System Properties, Advanced, Error Reporting -disable, and untick notify

kinda crap advice, but it'll keep the screen clean!

Edited January 28, 2006 by bledd

[HyperHacker]

But then Explorer would just close silently. You could always try another shell.

Also if your system can handle it, Azureus is a great BT client (albeit hard to spell). Unfortunately it's written in Java, so it'll eat up huge amounts of resources, especially being such an intricate program to begin with.