Explorer Crashes with certain Extensions

Whenever I right click on .mp3, .wav, and .pls Window Explorer crashes.

At first I thought it was a corrupt user, but it happens with every user.

Then I thought it was Winamp 5.x causing the problem and so I uninstall Winamp and had Windows Media Player 10 be the default player for all types of media. That didn't work either.

Now I'm thinking it might be a registry problem dealing with the context of the right click and those extensions, but I am not sure where to look. Of course I'm pulling straws at this point.

Here is the Event log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 12/29/2004
Time: 5:57:55 PM
User: N/A
Computer: JOHN
Description:
Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.2180, faulting module kernel32.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x00022a02.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 65 78 70 ure exp
0018: 6c 6f 72 65 72 2e 65 78 lorer.ex
0020: 65 20 36 2e 30 2e 32 39 e 6.0.29
0028: 30 30 2e 32 31 38 30 20 00.2180
0030: 69 6e 20 6b 65 72 6e 65 in kerne
0038: 6c 33 32 2e 64 6c 6c 20 l32.dll
0040: 35 2e 31 2e 32 36 30 30 5.1.2600
0048: 2e 32 31 38 30 20 61 74 .2180 at
0050: 20 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 offset
0058: 30 30 30 32 32 61 30 32 00022a02
0060: 0d 0a ..


By the way, it is Windows XP Pro.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

 

Try disabling all non-MS context menu items. You can do that easily using ShellExView

If that gives relief, you can add them back one at a time to isolate the culprit.

 

Thank you surferdude!

That solved the problem. It was the "MP3ToWave Shell Extension" context menu.
That shouldn't be to hard to fix. Just need to uninstall/reinstall and all should be well. If not, I'll just uninstall it.

Thanks again.

 

I note that this problem had been solved already.. Search is your friend.

third hit when searching for click crash explorer

http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=34550&highlight=click+crash+explorer