browsing control panel....and it crashed.

[Antman]

move physx.cpl out and place on desktop.

Test

 

[3r1c]

In my background , i'm running firefox and MSN. I just installed AVG as well.

Ive read a few posts in here about strange behavior in 7 with AVG.
Try uninstall it (turning it off does not unload the drivers from the kernel).

 

[Antman]

The old man is retiring for the night.

If test fails, do these two next, maybe at the same time

ncpa.cpl
nvcpl.cpl

eventually, we will do all.

sfc /scannow might be easier

It is also possible that we are chasing the wrong thing. Could be video driver.

 

[xcluded]

move physx.cpl out and place on desktop.

Test

Hmm , i move the physx.cpl out from the menu to desktop.
The physx.cpl still in the menu ?
Did i missed out something?

 

[Antman]

Check for physx.mui as well. move if exist. I can hang a few more minutes

 

[Antman]

The old man is retiring for the night.

Zzz

 

[chev65]

DUI70.dll is apparently the Windows Direct UI Engine, so I'd say try updating your video drivers, disabling aero, and running sfc /scannow (you need to run this in an administrator console)

 

[xcluded]

Check for physx.mui as well. move if exist. I can hang a few more minutes

Sorry bro , i was caught up with work lately.
The problem still exist despite that move.

@ chev65 : i'm already using the latest driver from nvidia site. I ran the sfc /scannow , it exit itself upon verifying the files(no other prompts). What does it mean?

Thanks.

 

[Antman]

Similar problems (DUI70.dll crashes) were related to corrupt CPL (and MUI apparently) files. Remove one at a time and test. Or remove all and test.

A similar problem has been reported and fixed with an odd combo of actions.

Disconnect from internet.
Uninstall anti-virus
Test.

Also, I have, on more than one occassion, removed a driver, swept the driver, re-installed the driver, to fix a problem.

You could uninstall your video driver, use DriverSweeper and re-install.

 

[xcluded]

hmm out of curiosity , i re-installed the windows7 again.
this time i did not install any software or drivers first , just plain windows7 only.

i navigate the control panel for the past 15-20mins and even longer. it did not crash.

The softwares/drivers i did not install are : Soundcard driver , Nvidia driver , AVG and MSN.

Should i install the nvidia driver from the windows update ? Or from nvidia site? IIRC , the version from windows update site is one version older. Whatever it is , either versions that i'm going to install , i fear the controlpanel may crash again. Sigh.

 

[Antman]

If you do not use any "special" features of the nVidia card, Windows driver is fine. On my ATI card, I use an overscan setting that is not available with the Windows driver.

 

[chev65]

Soundcard drivers are famous for causing these types of problems. Just install one driver at a time and test in control panel so you can figure out which one is causing the problems.

 

[xcluded]

thank you everyone for the help on this issue.
Instead of the latest 190.38 driver , i used 186.18 now.

no more crashes so far. so much for being the latest driver

 

[Antman]

Six blind men, one elephant.

 

[cibo]

I have too this problem. The control panel crash was causing igfxcpl.cpl. So i move it from System32 folder and now is control panel fully working without crashing. I think that Intel Video Driver is old and doesn't support Win 7.

 

[codetalkr]

Had same problem here, but solved with one of these hotfixes.

Windows6.1-KB123334-x64
Windows6.1-KB123456-v2-x64

Try both of them.

I don't know exactly which one solved my Windows 7 Control Panel navigation problem, but now my Control Panel works perfectly without crashing...

 

[greeneggsandham]

Same problem here to.

 

[fseal]

Had same problem here, but solved with one of these hotfixes.

Windows6.1-KB123334-x64
Windows6.1-KB123456-v2-x64

Try both of them.

I don't know exactly which one solved my Windows 7 Control Panel navigation problem, but now my Control Panel works perfectly without crashing...

Is there a hotfix page for Windows 7 on Microsoft's site for us mere technet/msdn users yet? Or are those "in the wild" patch files?

 

[Firestrider]

Had same problem here, but solved with one of these hotfixes.

Windows6.1-KB123334-x64
Windows6.1-KB123456-v2-x64

Try both of them.

I don't know exactly which one solved my Windows 7 Control Panel navigation problem, but now my Control Panel works perfectly without crashing...

Where did you get those hotfixes? I looked for them on Microsoft's Knowledge Base but can't find them.

 

[Antman]

Referenced on TechNet

With the possible exception of KB123334, I do not see the connection.