XP Problems

celliott

celliott

celliott

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A few days ago my family PC seemed to crash whenever Shift was pressed, or whenever the hard disk was viewed, or internet explorer opened.

I reformatted it, updated and since then everything has been fine.

I am now getting the same error on my PC, it seems this error can happen on any application and I have no idea of the cause.

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I have seen this error not only on cli.exe but also on explorer.exe and iexplore.exe.

Any ideas??
 
Have run Memtest on both machines already and no problems found. After a quick look on search it seems there are a few threads with this same error.

Gah I hate Windows. Wouldnt be using it if all PC games ran easily on linux.
 
The error you are getting is pretty generic. It's telling you that cli.exe has tried to write something to address 0, which won't work. This behaviour isn't confined to just Microsoft applications (it could happen with any app if there's a bug). It's also not confined to Windows -- you could easily get the same thing to happen on Linux, you'd probably get a segmentation error instead.

Anyway, if it's happening on several Windows applications, then I'd be inclined to believe that it's one of the following things:

* Broken memory (though if you've run memtest that would suggest otherwise)

* Broken hard drive -- worth giving it a scan...

* Corrupt DLL -- if these applications are accessing a DLL that's corrupt, it's entirely possible you'd get this error. Doing the hard drive scan might pick up possible corruption. I reckon this is the most likely cause, especially as there are several applications causing the error.

I can't think of any reason this should happen other than the above. It seems odd that you are seeing it on two separate machines. Was there any software that you've recently installed on both? Had they both just done a Windows Update?
 
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