Ionstormsucks
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I thought I post this here, because it took me quite a while to figure this one out. I'm using Windows Vista for some time now, mainly because I have lots of memory installed and don't want to waste it. Anyway, after a while programs stopped working and when I tried to right click an icon the explorer crashed itself. I was trying to find out what caused all these problems, but couldn't find a solution although there are hundrets of threads out there that deal with this particular problem. So I did a clean install about a week ago and at first everything worked fine and then suddenly the same problems popped up again. After searching the internet for quite a while I came across a solution that did the trick for me. The troublemaker is, big surprise, a DRMS - SecuROM. It installs a file extension which causes other programs, including the windows explorer to crash.
Now there is an easy solution to solve this. There is a small programm called ShellExView (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html), which shows you all the extension files of your system and allows you to simply disable them. As soon as I disabled the SecuROM extension everything worked perfectly again...
Now there is an easy solution to solve this. There is a small programm called ShellExView (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html), which shows you all the extension files of your system and allows you to simply disable them. As soon as I disabled the SecuROM extension everything worked perfectly again...
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