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Subject: Windows XP error message
Category: Computers > Software
Asked by: degreeman-ga
List Price: $15.00
Posted: 07 Sep 2005 22:04 PDT
Expires: 07 Oct 2005 22:04 PDT
Question ID: 565516
I just installed a trial version of Macromedia's homsite. Now whenever
I do something in windows, a "Visual Studio Just in time debugger"
window pops up, and asks me to choose a bugger for a windows
exception.

(I have Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta installed.)

I immediatly did a system restore, thinking it would solve the
problem. It didn't. PLEASE HELP!!!!

A description of the window that pops up"
"An unhandled win32 exception occured in explorer.exe[2185]"
Then it asks possible debuggers, and a box with "New instance of
Visual Studio 2005" is selected. There are two check boxes. One says
"set the currently selected debugger as the default" and the other
"manually choose debugging engines."

Then it asks below "Do you want to debug using the selected debugger?"
If I press ok, it opens Visual Studio.

Clarification of Question by degreeman-ga on 07 Sep 2005 22:09 PDT
I am looking for an solution that does not have me reinstall windows.

Clarification of Question by degreeman-ga on 07 Sep 2005 22:16 PDT
The error message seems to come up whenever I open a folder.

Clarification of Question by degreeman-ga on 07 Sep 2005 22:29 PDT
Okay, I guess it stopped doing it.

I have a fear of having to reinstall windows.

What was going on? How can I prevent it? How can I fix it when it happens again?
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Subject: Re: Windows XP error message
Answered By: sublime1-ga on 08 Sep 2005 00:28 PDT
Rated:4 out of 5 stars
 
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.


Please do not rate this answer until you are satisfied that  
the answer cannot be improved upon by way of a dialog  
established through the "Request for Clarification" process. 

sublime1-ga

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
degreeman-ga rated this answer:4 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $2.00
Thanks for your answer.

I love technology. When it works.

Thanks for your help!

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