In my case, the Windows Photo Gallery has an instant APPCRASH when I try to view any image with it. I set the display mode now default to Quicktime picture viewer. It's kinda annoying though. I sweeped my drives extensively yesterday with both Norton 360 and PCTools Spyware Doctor. Two Trojans removed, but they're not the problem.
I browsed several fora on the internet, but the exact fault module that causes the crash didn't turn up a lot ...



The appcrash description is this one:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Explorer.EXE
Application Version: 6.0.6001.18164
Application Timestamp: 4907e791
Fault Module Name: nvd3dumx.dll
Fault Module Version: 7.15.11.7516
Fault Module Timestamp: 481c13a7
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000000000027dca0
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1043
Additional Information 1: ab61
Additional Information 2: 3dad184d87da2e8024ac8ee27cc7f152
Additional Information 3: 856b
Additional Information 4: b71b01e121ce047652f1ce2c023388c7

Anyone got proper suggestions to take care of this? Much obliged and thanks !
I've also disabled the left windows widget 'panel' since it fails to start properly - will check out what it causes (but I hardly use that thing, it's only distracting).

IncogNico wrote:

> In my case, the Windows Photo Gallery has an instant APPCRASH when I
> try to view any image with it. I set the display mode now default to
> Quicktime picture viewer. It's kinda annoying though. I sweeped my
> drives extensively yesterday with both Norton 360 and PCTools Spyware
> Doctor. Two Trojans removed, but they're not the problem.
> I browsed several fora on the internet, but the exact fault module
> that causes the crash didn't turn up a lot ...
>
> The appcrash description is this one:
> Problem signature:
> Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
> Application Name: Explorer.EXE
> Application Version: 6.0.6001.18164
> Application Timestamp: 4907e791
> Fault Module Name: nvd3dumx.dll
> Fault Module Version: 7.15.11.7516
> Fault Module Timestamp: 481c13a7
> Exception Code: c0000005
> Exception Offset: 000000000027dca0
> OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
> Locale ID: 1043
> Additional Information 1: ab61
> Additional Information 2: 3dad184d87da2e8024ac8ee27cc7f152
> Additional Information 3: 856b
> Additional Information 4: b71b01e121ce047652f1ce2c023388c7
>
> Anyone got proper suggestions to take care of this? Much obliged and
> thanks !
> I've also disabled the left windows widget 'panel' since it fails to
> start properly - will check out what it causes (but I hardly use that
> thing, it's only distracting).

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No guarantees...but your Photo Gallery database
may be corrupted.

Maybe the following article will offer some ideas:

(944221) Windows Live Photo Gallery stops
responding or will not start
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944221/en-us

For Windows Photo Gallery...just change the path to:

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Photo Gallery

After renaming Pictures.pd4 you will have to re-catalog
your pictures. If renaming Pictures.pd4 does not solve the
problem...you can delete the new Pictures.pd4 file and
change the name of the original file back to Pictures.pd4
and the catalog will be restored.

In the later versions of Windows Live Photo Gallery...
the file name is Pictures.pd5.



--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Wait up - this is funny...

Now I see what might have been the idiocy here:
I can select either "Windows Photo Gallery" AND under it in the list (of the programmes suggested to open the file content) there's "Windows Live Photo Gallery" ! The problems I've described adhere to the first icon of Windows Photo Gallery...

With the other, Windows Live Photo Gallery ,everything appears to be working mighty fine... So that's kinda cleared (for now)...