I'm running WXP SP1 on a Dell2400. At start-up, Windows appears to load normally; however, if I try to go to "Start/Control Panel, My Computer, or Search", I get an error window: "Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close....". At this point, I'm returned to the desktop, the taskbar and all of the icons appear to refresh, and then computer becomes very sluggish. :smileymad:

 

I updated and ran NAV2003, AdAware, and Spy-Bot. All came up clean. I was able to open the Control Panel in Safe Mode. The Event log showed 3 error events, pasted below. Errors #1 and #2 occurred during the normal start-up, but without any visual indication of a problem. Error #3 occurred when I tried to access the Control Panel in normal mode. Also in Safe Mode, I ran the Error Checking utility. This Event log is also pasted below.

 

I don't know what to do next. I would appreciate any feedback. :smileysad:

Thanks,
Whit

 

Event Log Error #1:
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: EventSystem
Event Category: (50)
Event ID: 4609
Date:  11/2/2004
Time:  9:48:19 PM
User:  N/A
Computer: SARAG
Description:
The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing.  HRESULT was 8007043C from line 44 of d:\nt\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp.  Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.

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Event Log Error #2:
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: VSS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 8193
Date:  11/2/2004
Time:  9:48:19 PM
User:  N/A
Computer: SARAG
Description:
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance.  hr = 0x80040206.

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Data:
0000: 57 52 54 57 52 54 49 43   WRTWRTIC
0008: 32 31 31 33 00 00 00 00   2113....
0010: 57 52 54 57 52 54 49 43   WRTWRTIC
0018: 32 30 37 38 00 00 00 00   2078....

 

Event Log Error #3:
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date:  11/2/2004
Time:  9:55:04 PM
User:  N/A
Computer: SARAG
Description:
Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2800.1106, faulting module msvcrt.dll, version 7.0.2600.1106, fault address 0x000216af.

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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 38   e 6.0.28
0028: 30 30 2e 31 31 30 36 20   00.1106
0030: 69 6e 20 6d 73 76 63 72   in msvcr
0038: 74 2e 64 6c 6c 20 37 2e   t.dll 7.
0040: 30 2e 32 36 30 30 2e 31   0.2600.1
0048: 31 30 36 20 61 74 20 6f   106 at o
0050: 66 66 73 65 74 20 30 30   ffset 00
0058: 30 32 31 36 61 66 0d 0a   0216af..

 

Error Checking Event Log:
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Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date:  11/2/2004
Time:  9:43:09 PM
User:  N/A
Computer: SARAG
Description:
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 22 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 22 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 22 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.

  78083932 KB total disk space.
   5183212 KB in 33927 files.
      9376 KB in 1972 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    118868 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  72772476 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  19520983 total allocation units on disk.
  18193119 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
2c a2 00 00 46 8c 00 00 3e aa 00 00 00 00 00 00  ,...F...>.......
64 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ba 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  d...............
f4 69 b3 02 00 00 00 00 22 4a bd 17 00 00 00 00  .i......"J......
3e 6e 56 02 00 00 00 00 a6 60 9b d0 00 00 00 00  >nV......`......
9a 6c 05 b4 03 00 00 00 ba 50 2f a3 04 00 00 00  .l.......P/.....
99 9e 36 00 00 00 00 00 87 84 00 00 00 00 00 00  ..6.............
00 b0 5b 3c 01 00 00 00 b4 07 00 00 00 00 00 00  ..[<............

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

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