Windows Photo Viewer Crashes when moved to another monitor

I have encountered a strange problem today: when I want to see an image with the Windows Photo Viewer - which is the default application for this purpose - it opens on the secondary monitor. It works fine while there, but any attempt to move the window to the primary monitor results in a crash with the message "COM Surrogate has stopped working". Here are the problem details from that error message:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: DllHost.exe
Application Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Application Timestamp: 4a5bca54
Fault Module Name: ImagingEngine.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a5bdf39
Exception Code: c000041d
Exception Offset: 00000000000d825d
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 7778
Additional Information 2: 77787e75430e088899e5b1c279bc8547
Additional Information 3: fb2b
Additional Information 4: fb2b7a3b2d4e31424ed07ca7ba8dab51

There is an option to check online for the solution to the problem but it doe snot produce anything.

Any ideas?

Well, the resolution of the main monitor is 1920x1080 and in fact until yesterday everything worked just fine, I could move the Photo Viewer between the two monitors without any problems.

Well, after researching a lot on Google and finding more threads on the Forums about the same thing, I managed to do something nobody suggested and my problem seems to have gone away. I mean, I do not believe this has anything to do with Nero or other apps as many forums suggest, since everything worked just fine until recently. I did uninstall one piece of software I downloaded recently (AVS video converter), but this did not do anything, I booted into the safe mode, but then it turned out Photo Viewer does not work in the safe mode anyways.

So, to make the story short, I simply went ahead and disabled the second monitor, forcing everything to appear on the main one. Here the Photo Viewer worked fine. I then re-enabled the second monitor and voila, I can move the Photo Viewer window between monitors again without any problem.

I wish I knew what the actual problem was though ...

Unifex's solution worked for me when nothing else did! I searched EVERYWHERE before I found this post. Created an account just to thank you!

Thanks Unifex!

Jude

PS: I also just installed AVS video converter. (And now UNinstalled.)