Help - Explorer Window Closes ...

Ztruker · 28 Jul 2014

All the errors I see in the CBS.log file are for windows update collections it couldn't find. Are you seeing other things?

MourningStar · 28 Jul 2014

Ztruker said:

Are you seeing other things?

if you mean do I have any problems other than the OP I resolved, no.

MourningStar · 17 Aug 2014

MilesAhead said:

Guard pages for the stack are typically used to detect when more memory should be allocated for the stack. Usually temporary variables that only live during the run of a function are created on the stack.

Have you rebooted the machine since this error? If not I would reboot and see what happens.
Otherwise I would try is a restore point if you have one available.

This issue returned a few days or so after the OP. I was unable to re-visit until now. I have done several re-boots since and a system restore point to a time prior is not available. I have updated the OP to include an additional anomaly. Any other advice is welcome.

MilesAhead · 17 Aug 2014

I can't find the Registry Key for items in the Explorer Background Right Click Menu. But I suspect there is something funky there. If you right click Explorer background and they all close it could be that something isn't handling the menu creation correctly. For example a recursive loop that eats up all the stack, causing the guard page message.

I anyone knows the Explorer Background Context Menu Key could you post it? :)

MourningStar · 17 Aug 2014

thx M_A - I do have a system 'tweak' in place that hides an explorer tool bar and appears upon mouse-hover (I recall I learned of it at this site). It's the toolbar that has 'Organize', 'Burn', 'New Folder' etc. It does jitter a lot if I move the cursor across this area and have to be really delicate if I want to select one of those items. Although this has not been an issue in the past I mention it here in case there is relevance to this problem. In any case, I prefer to disable it but cannot recall how I did it in the first place.

MilesAhead · 17 Aug 2014

MourningStar said:

thx M_A - I do have a system 'tweak' in place that hides an explorer tool bar and appears upon mouse-hover (I recall I learned of it at this site). It's the toolbar that has 'Organize', 'Burn', 'New Folder' etc. It does jitter a lot if I move the cursor across this area and have to be really delicate if I want to select one of those items. Although this has not been an issue in the past I mention it here in case there is relevance to this problem. In any case, I prefer to disable it but cannot recall how I did it in the first place.

Usually something like that is a Registry tweak. Do you have a dedicated folder for .reg files? Or perhaps you could search *.reg

I spent 1/2 hour searching and I couldn't pick it out.

Callender · 17 Aug 2014

MilesAhead said:

MourningStar said:

thx M_A - I do have a system 'tweak' in place that hides an explorer tool bar and appears upon mouse-hover (I recall I learned of it at this site). It's the toolbar that has 'Organize', 'Burn', 'New Folder' etc. It does jitter a lot if I move the cursor across this area and have to be really delicate if I want to select one of those items. Although this has not been an issue in the past I mention it here in case there is relevance to this problem. In any case, I prefer to disable it but cannot recall how I did it in the first place.

Usually something like that is a Registry tweak. Do you have a dedicated folder for .reg files? Or perhaps you could search *.reg

I spent 1/2 hour searching and I couldn't pick it out.

I think that it might be this one:

Hide Folder Band in Windows 7

Also

http://www.askvg.com/how-to-apply-an...er-in-windows/

MourningStar · 17 Aug 2014

thx Callender for the lead. That was the mod. I 'undid' the mod, restarted and the explorer windows are restored. However, as I suspected, it does not resolve this issue.

MilesAhead · 18 Aug 2014

If "this" is supposed to be a link, it's dead. If you mean this problem we are on then I don't understand.

MourningStar · 18 Aug 2014

MilesAhead said:

... If you mean this problem we are on then I don't understand.

Yes, the problem as per OP.