X Application has stopped working

pcinfoman · Apr 15, 2008

I run Windows Vista 32 Ultimate and it was running just fine for the last 4 or so months. I installed it around Christmas of 2007. Now, all of a sudden it gives me the error message (shown below) in various programs (Firefox, IE, Dungeons and Dragons Online, Everquest 2, MS Word, MS Excel, etc). It does not happen when I first launch the program, it waits until I am in it good and have something to lose (open unsaved documents).
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X Application has stopped working

A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.
Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
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I have not installed any new software or added any new hardware. The buzz around the net is that it is caused by an MS Update around 04/09/2008. However, I am not seeing any solutions.

This is really irritating. Does anybody have any ideas on how to solve this?
I ran the SP1 update and it did not solve the problem.

Brink · Apr 15, 2008

Hi pcinfoman,

Welcome to Vista Forums. :party:

You might try running a sfc /scannow command to see if it can find and fix any bad system files that may be causing this. You can see how to in this tutorial if needed.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files-sfc-command.html

If that did not help, then you can do a System Restore using a restore point dated before this problem started. You can see how to in this tutorial if needed.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76905-system-restore-how.html

Hope this helps you,
Shawn

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