David, u don't provide a lot of information, e.g., your OS, etc. I'm not familiar w/a file named expl.exe, & a google search does not find anything, either. Perhaps it was copied incorrectly? If not: 1) I'd do a chkdsk on the hard drive; 2) I'd do some hard drive testing. & 3) I'd do some serious malware scanning, as the possibility of a file infector is worrisome. If u have another machine, or could boot an OS such as Linux, I'd consider getting the OS out of the picture & scanning using the known clean system. On 10/9/11, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I'm getting the below error when atempting to cut, copy, or paste folders or files on my computer. Here's the error:
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! Program: C:\WINDOWS\Expl EXE This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. OK
I noticed it for the first time last evening when atempting to copy content off of an sd card to my computer. I didn't think anything of it at that point because that card had been put through the ringer and I assumed it was in the process of going bad. I did a chkdsk /f on the sd card followed up by a defrag and was able to copy the content. Later in the evening the sd card removed I was atempting to copy the same content off the computer on to a USB stick and got the same message, this time chkdsk on the stick revealed nothing wrong, I should mention that sd card did have errors on it and were corrected by the chkdsk. Now segeway to the morning, I'm not even dealing with the same content, same usb stick or sd card, I'm trying to copy content from an external USB terabyte drive to my computer, I got the same error. This time I actually had to reboot the box. Now I went to the terabyte drive and tried to copy the content from one folder to another on it, and again got the same message.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd urgently like to hear them!
Thanks. Dave.
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