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HA!!!! After fiddling with the registry key some more I think I got something !!! Windows explorer crashes when the file types are listed (tools - folder options - file types) So I fiddled with HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html like Alec§taar proposed. I noticed that as soon as both these key have a string property named 'Content Type' with the value 'text/html' windows explorer crashes. Modify these properties to only 'html' and that solves the crash A drawback of this is that IE seems to cannot find the file you double click, so an error is displayed when you double click an htm(l) file and have 'open in IE' as default action. But this might be THE time to switch to firefox ( http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html ) I hope this realy is the solution and if someone might come up with a better value for the 'Content Type' string properties, please let us know!

Alec§taar wrote Quote: Is your IE fully patched/up-to-date? This matters... I don't think this is the problem, because the crash problem hasn't been there from the beginning. Anymway, this is my info: Internet Explorer info version 6.0.2600.0000 build 62600 mshtml.dll info 6.0.2600.0 2.729 KB 23/08/2001 13:00:00 C:\WINDOWS\system32 Microsoft Corporation Alec§taar wrote Quote: BUT, unregistering & then re-registering your mshtml.dll MAY help also Unregistering didn't work, I got the error below (but reregistering did ... without result) RegSvr32: DllUnregisterServer in C:\WINDOWS\system32\mshtml.dll failed. Return code was: 0x8000ffff Alec§taar wrote Quote: ...if you take a look here using regedit.exe: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm & here: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html I have checked the reg keys ... first I had only editplus in the opewith list (because I deleted the file types htm and html in windows explorer (tools - folder options - file types)) Than I deleted the keys completly without result. So nothing worked ! I also tried to delete quite a few programs (office, .net framework, ... euh well, quite a few more) ... Without result. I downloaded the mshtml.dll file from a website and replaced my file with it ... without result. I checked if the crash still occured with an empty html file (right click - new text file - renamed it to html) ... crashed too on select of that empty html file. I cleared out my cache and cookies many times. no result. ran ad-aware many times. But I still have to give the virus scan and spybot search and destroy a try... Chlikaflok Quote: The question is : Do you have openoffice? No I haven't Anyone some more ideas? PS Alec§taar you do know how to stimulate someone Quote: ...you're the "perfect" kind of guy... I'd be almost willing to bet YOU might figure out an answer ... Ever thought of going into advertisement or politics

Ah, I'm surprised that there are more people who've got the 'Explorer crash on htm(l) file select' problem... I realy don't know what causes the crash, but I've noticed that when you delete the file type (tools - folder options - file types), windowe explorer doesn't crash ... until it adds the file types again (apparently it does it automaticaly) It doesn't matter with me how I have the left pane used (folders, search or task and places) but what does matter is if the htm(l) file is selected alone or along with other files: When I have just one htm(l) file selected, the crash will happen. When I have multiple htm(l) files or one html file plus other files selected the crash won't happen... I get no error message, all windows explorers just close. Trying to preview a wallpaper closes the display properties window indeed.... Quote: It doesn't happen so often that I click html files, but when browsing folders with the keyboard I ofter have to go over one to get where I want... And I'm webdesigner so I don't do much more than clicking IE files