Constant Explorer/thumbnail crash. MSVCR80.dll culprit? How to fix?

Friends, I decided to do everything possible to remove reference to HTMLPreviewShellExt.dll on the system, including removing all references in the registry editor and where it exists on the hard drive (c:/Windows).

I used Crap Cleaner to clean the registry and rebooted. Upon restart and entry into my user account, I immediately go this error.



I hit "Abort." Immediately Explorer crashed, but restarted. It seemed to run fine after that, but I logged off and logged back in and this time I did not receive the error message.

I have no idea if that OS function error is related to my removal of the DLL, but thinking ... that error is exactly the same one I got a week ago, as noted in an earlier post on this thread.

Constant Explorer/thumbnail crash. MSVCR80.dll culprit? How to fix?

Noting the error reads:

1.0.7.16,2015/06/01 18:41:51
CreateExpBtn, err:System Error. Code: 1410.
Class already exists

Would this have anything to do with my recent update of Visual C++Runtime201564bit and Visual C++Runtime201532bit (among all the others)?

That said, things seem to be stable right now, though no URL icons are no longer rendered as snapshots of the websites.

As usual, thanks for any insight or answers!

Callender and other friends: I have been on this machine all day and it hasn't hiccuped once after that initial Explorer startup error:

1.0.7.16,2015/06/01 18:41:51
CreateExpBtn, err:System Error. Code: 1410.
Class already exists

... which I clicked Abort when I was given the option. I have restarted the computer a time or two since and have not received the error again. Things seem pretty good now.

I suspect it was that old "HTMLPreviewShellExt.dll" -- as mentioned in an earlier post, it's 8-9 years old now. I like the option of seeing HTML thumbnails, but not at the expense of a unreliable machine, or for that matter CPU and resources being slowed down by all the graphical renderings needed to make the thumbnails.

If this keeps up, I will click problem solved. Thanks as always for the support.

I agree, HTML preview is outdated. I wonder if there is something as useful but newer available? I haven't found it yet.

I have an older laptop that I've been bringing up to date. I started getting the error message:
1.0.7.16,2015/06/01 18:41:51
CreateExpBtn, err:System Error. Code: 1410.
Class already exists

I found this thread, and after reading it, I decided that the thing that made the most sense was to uninstall IObit Uninstaller. Which I had just recently upgraded. And it was a big upgrade, skipping one or two major revisions. So far (after several reboots and a half-day of running), the error has not re-appeared.

I would not have thought to try uninstalling that one program without this post, so ... thanks for this!

-Jim :)