I have Spybot and Adaware installed and run them regularly, also running ZoneAlarm Pro w/ adblocking set to high. Sometimes the desktop seems to 'refresh' itself when in actuality Explorer just did a shutdown/restart. I changed the icons for my computer, recycle bin, doc folder and it will lose those and revert back to the default icons. When changing the icons back i get a popup saying: "Application popup: rundll32.exe - Bad Image : The application or DLL C:\My_Icons\Trek\10.ico is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette." It was valid when I downloaded it. I even did a unzip/replace from the original zip, nada, same issue. I can open the icon in Irfan and it reports as an icon, right click, properties, shows as icon. This now happens with a great deal of my icons (not the shell icons though) it comes up with the message then will finally show the icon and I can then apply it and it will work. I've scanned this thing every way from Sunday, no viruses, did a system scan then an online scan, both negative. Have scanned for trojans, negative. Scanned for spyware, clean. Have checked the registry and no problems there. I've even done chkdsk c: /f and no errors reported. Starting to pull my hair out over this! LOL zat ----- Original Message ----- From: "cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 5:04 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Windows Explorer keeps crashing > have you scanned for spyware? > My windows explorer has been throwing more errors lately - seems about every other time I open it, after it is open a while, I'll get one of those error things - do I want to send the report to microsoft and windows explorer will close down. I never open my recycling bin - so I can try that and see if it closes windows explorer...nope - didn't do anything.... > > always wonder if they did something to it in an update ! > CrisS > ----- Original Message ----- > From: zat > To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 7:32 PM > Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Windows Explorer keeps crashing > > > This has just started with in the last 2 weeks. Open the recycle bin, boom! > explorer restarts. Sometimes it's closing a folder or just doing nothing. > Have scanned for viruses and trojans, both results are negative. No further > info at Microsoft and have exhausted my brain on Google looking for answers. > > TIA, > zat > > Event Type: Information > Event Source: Winlogon > Event Category: None > Event ID: 1002 > Date: 10/3/2003 > Time: 3:42:30 PM > User: N/A > Computer: STARFLEET-HQS > Description: > The shell stopped unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted. To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk