"Referenced memory" errors increasing in frequency!

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KatanaDV20

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Hallo :)

Could you guys please offer some insight into this as my endless Googling has not found a solution (even though I see other have come across the similar error).

Basically this is whats started to pop up. Initially it was rare but now I see it about 5 times an hour:

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Wether I press Cancel or OK the result is the same. The Taskbar & Sytem Tray (and basically the whole Explorer shell) vanish. Im faced with a black screen.

I then have to CTRL ALT DEL to bring up Task Manager. I then have to end the process explorer.exe.

Then I have to go to File>New Task>Run and type in explorer

This restores my taskbar, system tray and Exlorer shell. The alternative to doing the above is logging out of my WIndows account & then logging in again.

The Google hits I have seen on this always seem to relate to a particular program - I have been unable to find a description of Windows Explorer causing this - if it *IS* Explorer thats the culprit even.

Could this be a hardware thing? Its increasing in frequency which has made me work Acronis True Image overtime :D

Your collective insights would be appreciated OverClockers...

Thanks :)

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DxDiag Dump
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Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Dimension 8400
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A02
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Page File: 376MB used, 3564MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
DxDiag Previously: Crashed in Direct3D (stage 2) & DirectSound (stage 3) & DirectInput (stage 1)
 
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This might sound strange, but overclock your CPU. I used to get tonnes of those errors at stock speeds, after overclocking they've completely dissapeared.
 
Hey guys I wanted to post this on here because I totally fixed my problem and I hope it helps someone else whose in the same position I was.

Just realized I deleted Photobucket screenshot I had made..oops! Anyways I found another one:

Basically I was getting loads of these:
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All the tests I did came out normal and no other program was giving trouble. After another Google search I came upon this website:

http://www.helpwithwindows.com/techfiles/explorer-crashes.html

This dude mentions an app called ShelexView and hot dang it fixed my problem. You know when you right-click on a folder in windows Explorer you get all those options popping up (Scan with AVG, Zip to blahblah.zip, Send to DVD burner etc.)? Those shell extensions are what this dude says are causing those memory-reference errors most of the time. ShelexView lets you enable/disable what you see on the right-click. The list can be huge if you have lots of 3rd party apps that plant stuff in the right-click menu so it does take a bit of patience.

Basically you go thru the list by pages and select all the entries one page at a time and then disable them. Then load win explorer, if it still crashes go back to Shelexview, renable what you just disabled, press page up to go to the next lot and repeat. In time you will see that suddenly win Explorer has stopped crashing and the memory errors are gone. Now you just have to narrow things down. Maybe disable 5 things at a go.

Anyways after about 20 mins I had found the culprit. Free Download Manager. Looks like it was it BHO extension that was causing trouble. I guess this is the bit that monitors your borwser and then fires up FDM when you wanna download. A pity because its great software :(

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All errors have now vanished completely and my computer is like the way it was. As for FDM...unfortunately its gettin binned. Hope this helps.
 
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I use FDM extensively and have done for years, integrated into Opera/Firefox/IE I've never ever had a serious error like that. So i don't think it would be the software, unless you've never kept it up to date.
 
LeperousDust Im really bummed tbh. FDM is by far the best of the best and Im very VERY reluctantly getting rid of it :( I am running the latest version.

But those error windows were appearing almost constantly...in a minute Id get like 4 of them and steadily increasing. It was very frustrating and I found out what was doing it.....damn...it HAD to be FDM isnt it! *sniff*

I will give it another go though. I will unsintall, clean out the registry and then install it again. Perhaps something went awry someplace.
 
I just doesn't seem right, i'm running the latest versions of both and its fine. Have you check the FDM forums for anything similar (i haven't personally) i could be that it is a bug with this release...
 
I just tested it LeperousDust by re-enabling the FDM BHO Helper in ShellView and the memory errors came back! Will check out the FDM forums!! Will let ya know if I find a fix!
 
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