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[FIXED!]Windows Vista problem.

Kyle

Posted: November 30, 2008 10:40 pm

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Well, today before the war against TDM, my wireless mouse starts mucking up. I take the wireless adapter, I unplug it+plug it back in, and then I accidentally hit the power button. (Stupid Acer for putting their usb ports RIGHT UNDER their power button)

Well, I go to restart computer, everthing is fine, and everything is about to load when BAM.

"Explorer.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close."

I click close, and everything is black. No start menu-no icons-background is solid black. I'm like, "Wtf?" I restart computer, I figured it would fix itself. It didn't. I restart again-go into safe mode, and everything is fine. I attempt a system restore, bring it back a few days, and that didn't work either. So here I am, asking for halp.

...HALP.

(by the way, only way I could get onto Firefox was from getting to task manager-new task-Firefox.exe.)

I simply removed Data execution prevention. (DEP) and it was fine. I always hated that add-on to Vista.

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Posted: November 30, 2008 10:47 pm

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QUOTE (Darth Magul @ November 30, 2008 10:40 pm)

(by the way, only way I could get onto Firefox was from getting to task manager-new task-Firefox.exe.)

Do explorer.exe instead of firefox.exe

Should bring it back to how it was

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Kyle

Posted: November 30, 2008 10:50 pm

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QUOTE (Mugger84 @ November 30, 2008 05:47 pm)

QUOTE (Darth Magul @ November 30, 2008 10:40 pm)

(by the way, only way I could get onto Firefox was from getting to task manager-new task-Firefox.exe.)

Do explorer.exe instead of firefox.exe

Should bring it back to how it was

~Mugger84

I've tried that, and it just crashes again.
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Edit-I'll try reinstalling Vista SP1, see if that'll help. If anyone has any other suggestions, I'm all ears.

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Mickey

Posted: November 30, 2008 11:06 pm

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Don't resort to re-installing SP1 first. If you have Vista, you should have a built in recovery thing, try that, and maybe system restore first.
Of course there is always the option of turning your computer off over night and it should all reset.

If all else fails then re-install.

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Kyle

Posted: November 30, 2008 11:08 pm

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QUOTE (Darth Magul @ November 30, 2008 05:40 pm)

mode, and everything is fine. I attempt a system restore, bring it back a few days, and that didn't work either.

Mickey.^^

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Mickey

Posted: November 30, 2008 11:16 pm

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Fail.

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Havochaha

Posted: December 1, 2008 12:37 am

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simple answer

vista sucks dick

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http://www.erepublik.com/en/referrer/Omar+Dandan
How to Make 10m an Hour

Mistah Vince

Posted: December 1, 2008 12:40 am

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u wana kno sekret? wen i gif u sig i rly virus u lulululululululululululul.

No, but seriously.

+1 to what Omar said.

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Sonixpber

Posted: December 1, 2008 01:25 am

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Hang on I had this problem before, I used to know the solution. The only difference is when I tried to launch explorer.exe, it did NOT crash. So maybe we have two seperate problems, but lets find out. I'll edit this post soon (hopefully).

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Kyle

Posted: December 1, 2008 01:27 am

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Yay! I hope it'll help me, Mike. <3

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Sonixpber

Posted: December 1, 2008 01:58 am

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I think I found the real problem, which is entirely different than what I had.

http://www.winvistaclub.com/t41.html

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Kyle

Posted: December 1, 2008 02:13 am

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MIKE!! ILY IT WORKED <333

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Mickey

Posted: December 1, 2008 12:35 pm

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I mainly deal with XP problems. I don't really deal with Vista because it fails

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Georgio9

Posted: December 1, 2008 10:02 pm

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All you guys are bashing windows vista.

I don't think any of you guys have seen the pre-Beta version of Windows 7. It looks pretty decent so far. Uses less memory, HD space, lower load times, a GUI that looks alot like OSX (go figure eh?).

Basically Vista but optimized every possible way at the moment. I'll let you guys know what it's like when I get the beta copy of it. My buddy has the pre-Beta copy now.

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Kyle

Posted: December 1, 2008 10:26 pm

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I actually like Vista, Matt. Nice looking streamlined interface, and Ja it's quite hot. I just hate how it errors all the time =[

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Useph1

Posted: December 2, 2008 12:56 am

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I've had the same problem with this except with watching youtube videos in Firefox.

I also run Vista.

I think once when I was watching a youtube vid firefox crashed and then I restarted it. After that when I watched youtube videos firefox froze up and crashed. This happened about 20 times, sometimes it would crash sometimes it wouldn't, but it got to the point where it did over 90% of the time. I clicked the more info bubble and it turned out it was DEP related.

What DEP (Data Execution Prevention) does is shut down a program that is using memory in an inefficient manner, or something of this sort. This is how most viruses act on your computer so Microsoft put this in to try to stop that.

Problem is, this can also happen when a program is closed improperly. The way I fixed this is cleared my Firefox Cache and Cookies (which is really easy to do), to remove the damaged files, and the problem is totally fixed.

Unfortunately for you, I have absolutely no idea how to clear the Windows Explorer Cache, so you'll just have to leave DEP off.

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