Browsing images causes crashing

When browsing directories containing images with virtually any program, like Windows Explorer, or Photoshop 7, or PainshopPro6, I get an error message saying the program has generated an error and will be closed by windows.

I recently reformatted my drive and restored most of these images from cd. It is happening with several types of image, including basic jpg wallpapers, website gif images, and my master psd files, which as you can imagine is getting slightly anoying.

I'm using Windows 2000 Pro with SP4 and a few other patch updates... Anyone got any ideas on what the problem could be? Its driving me up the wall


[edit] Browsing the CD does not cause any program to crash, and I've tried recopying the image back to the hdd, but I get the same problem

 

Check your event logs for more information. Post back.

 

What should I be looking for exactly?

The only error I have is this:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Serial
Event Category: None
Event ID: 36
Date: 01/03/2004
Time: 16:32:05
User: N/A
Computer: UNIBLOCK-99
Description:
While validating that \Device\Serial0 was really a serial port, the contents of the divisor latch register was identical to the interrupt enable and the receive registers. The device is assumed not to be a serial port and will be deleted.
Data:
0000: 00 00 08 00 02 00 56 00 ......V.
0008: 00 00 00 00 24 00 06 c0 ....$..À
0010: 3e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >.......
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 e8 00 00 00 00 00 00 .è......

 

No ideas then?

 

Sorry - missed that you had posted.

Take a look at This thread on another forum and see if there is any help there.

 

I don't think that helps.. my modem is working fine.. the images I'm having trouble with