degreeman...
Your debugger may have saved the day. While I'm glad to hear
that it seems to have stopped for now, and I hope it never
happens again, I have to report that there are very few results
returned for that particular error, and almost all of them
point to this article on Sandhills.com which publishes Smart
Computing:
"Some problems have only one solution: Reinstall the OS
(operating system). We believe this is one of those problems.
Before you launch into such a lengthy endeavor, however, we
think you deserve an explanation of why it is necessary."
"An exception is anything that disrupts the CPU as it
processes commands. This can occur for a variety of
reasons, such as an invalid request or a coding error.
Good programmers design their wares to identify and
handle these unusual events at the moment they occur.
The programmers may instruct the system to launch a
debugger (a utility that stringently reviews the code
for errors), for instance, or terminate the application
and present an error message."
Much more on the page:
http://www.sandhills.com/techsupport/detail.aspx?guid=&ErrorID=24193
The good news is that the suggestion to reinstall Windows
is given with respect to an addendum to the "unhandled win32
exception occured in explorer" error message, which says:
"However no debuggers are registered that can debug this exception.
Unable to JIT debug."
In your case, Visual Studio has acted successfully in debugging
the process error, at least for now, and the error has ceased.
What happened was that Windows encountered an exception while
opening Explorer.exe. Windows then attempted to access a JIT
(just-in-time) debugger as a means of handling the exception,
and, in your case was able to utilize Visual Studio successfully.
If a similar error occurs, Windows knows to use Visual Studio
as the default debugger, and hopefully it will do as good a
job next time, if there is one.
If you continue to experience frequent exceptions, you might
want to consider uninstalling software, such as Homesite,
which was installed just prior to experiencing problems for the
first time. The recently-installed software may be interfering
with normal Windows processes in a way that cannot be completely
resolved by way of debugging.
Last, but not least, for future reference, computer problems
are much more readily researched if you can provide the error
message exactly as it's given:
"An unhandled Win32 exception has occurred in Explorer.exe"
vs
"An unhandled win32 exception occured in explorer.exe"
This will ensure more rapid and accurate results, and all
researchers will be appreciative of this assistance.
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Searches done, via Google:
"An unhandled Win32 exception has occurred in Explorer.exe"
://www.google.com/search?q=%22An+unhandled+Win32+exception+has+occurred+in+Explorer.exe%22 |