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Re: Found the problem
Well, this is interesting. Somewhere on your computer there's a file named
ArcSpl.ax, which is somehow involved in your crashes. If you could
right-click on that file, and open its properties, on the Details tab, can
you tell what company made it or what program it might be involved with?
It's not a Vista OS file. Try looking under C:\Program Files\Common
Files\arcsoft\mpeg engine.
Anyway, having your .dat file extension associated with a program may be
key, too. Explorer is trying to create a picture of a .dat file, possibly,
and normally that file has no program association. (It might be better
putting a shortcut to Notepad in Sendto, and looking at an un-associated
..dat file that way, if you're so inclined). Why it's picking on
OESpamFilter.dat, I dunno.
If you want try un-associating the .dat file extension, in the registry
Editor, go to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dat
and, in the right-hand pane, right-click and delete the value "(default)",
under Name, (which will have the value "dat_auto_file", under Data).
Otherwise, you could make a .reg file in Notepad with this:
--------------------------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dat]
"NoOpen"="
--------------------------------------------------------
Copy the above into Notepad (not including the dashes) and save it as
dat.reg (no .txt extension). Close Notepad, then open dat.reg, and allow
the Merge.
"JasonH" <JasonH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BBC11B52-F0B3-4237-BCAD-26D2FBDD55E0@microsoft.com...
> Okay, through a clever use of the Extra Large Icons setting, I've managed
> to
> figure out that the cause of my problem is the OESpamFilter.dat file. If
> that file is onscreen as a thumbnail or attempts to register in a folder
> thumbnail, it crashes Windows Explorer. The problem is not general to
> .dat
> files -- I can have any other .dat file onscreen and nothing happens.
> It's
> only OESpamFilter.dat.
>
> Windows won't let me delete or even hide this file (access is denied). If
> I
> copy that file to some other location, it still crashes WE the same way
> (though at least I can delete those copies).
>
> What can I do about this? I've tried to change the default program for
> .dat
> files (it had been Notepad), but to no avail.
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