Daniel Tharp

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Thumbnails Kill Explorer.exe Dead

Summary: Explorer crashes can be caused by malformed thumbnails, and prevented by disabling Data Execution Prevention for Explorer.exe. WTL writes that quite frequently, while browsing files on his computer in Explorer, an error message pops up reading “Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.” Having encountered [...]

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Alice writes that on Windows Vista, she was typing a message in Windows Mail and inadvertently turned on…something. She writes that “Since I did this, when I type a word I have a click sound when typing each letter. If I make a mistake and backspace it won’t backspace. I have to hit the backspace [...]

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    I am comfortable enough in my masculinity to own some 50-odd bottles of cologne, and review them when the urge overcomes me. I am the first line of tech support for many small businesses in the Albuquerque region and do web development in PHP/MySQL.
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