Click on a Picture and it opens or not

I can click on a .Bmp or .JPG Picture and some times it opens or not. When it does not open I get "Remote Procedure Call Failed ". If I try later the original Picture may open or not. Other Pictures in the same Folder may open or not. If I go back to the original tomorrow it will open on the first try.

 

In Safe Mode I get "Windows Photo Viewer does not work in Safe Mode ".

 

Now I notice the same problem with Shortcuts. I guess I did not realize it was happening in Shortcuts. Why does these things happen in Windows 7.

 

I have checked for Malware and Virus. Did not find either.

 

Try doing a system restore and see if you're able to open these files after performing one.

-- Ryan
Windows Outreach TEam

 

I have tried System Restore. I do not think I can go back far enough to help with the problem.

 

I do not have what I would call a crash. Today I Disabled 3rd party Shell Extensions. Checked for the problem and I still have the same problems. I check for Malware with Spybot and Add-Aware. Here are the 3rd party shell extensions.
BlueWire General Property Sheet
Desktop Contex Class NVIDIA
Explorer BHO Class
Lavasoft Shell Extension
NSE SubField HP
NVIDIA Cpl Contex Menu Extension
NVIDIA Cpl Extension
Shell Extension For Malware Scanning AntiVir
Classic Explorer Bar
Classic CopyExt Class

 

Thanks a lot for trying. I fall into a Hole a lot. Sometimes I crawl out and sometimes not. If I get lucky and if I do I will come back here and let you know. Thanks again!!!

 

I did not intend to download and install Windows Service Pack 1 untill later. Today I was in a hurry and downloaded Updates and SP 1. I did not notice until I used Defrag and saw that it found 350 fragmented files. That seems a lot. Now when I try to open a picture I sometimes get a notice "COM Surrogate Has Stopped Working ". I can do nothing untill I get rid of the notice. The only other thing that has changed is that Shortcuts now open at once. I wonder if I have wait for Service Pack 2 to get everything to where they belong.

 

Have a look at this article...

Fix COM Surrogate has Stopped Working in Windows 7

Let us know if it helps.

 

I got this "You Can Not Set DEP attributes on 64-bit executables." I came upon this problem after download of Window 7 SP 1. I tried Reliability Monitor in Windows 7 and did not find COM Surrogate. If I can find the unistall for sp 1, I would uninstall and see if that cures the problem.

 

Hi wahlroot,

If'n you'd have read further in wildfires link you'd have seen:

 

I got to System Properties, Performance Options, Data Execution Prevention. I do not know how to change the path to syswow64/dllhost.exe.

 

Perhaps you should be looking at the applications that commonly cause this issue or post in malware as suggested earlier by Arie.

 

I use Spybot and Adaware regularly for malware.

 

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