Vista Explorer Crashing Right Clicking Media File

[Dreamxtreme]

Why does my Vista Explorer crash when i right click on a Media File to do with K-lite Codec pack
It says "Windows Explorer has stop working"



this does not seem to affect FLACS but does affect MP3s and AVI's

Does any1 else have this problem?


Heres the details

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Explorer.EXE
Application Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Application Timestamp: 4549b091
Fault Module Name: StackHash_18e0
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bdc9
Exception Code: c0000374
Exception Offset: 000af1c9
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 18e0
Additional Information 2: 8dac5496cec4e3c10ec7038e676d86fb
Additional Information 3: cf0b
Additional Information 4: 702053e10c4c180920a60b9085ee5657

[BartusCompater]

I'm assuming K-lite is referring to Kazaalite, the file sharing program. I'm sure most of the people on the forum here will inform you that this kind of program poses a serious threat to your computer, that you should remove it, and should proceed to do several virus/malware scans.

On another note, welcome to the PC Guide Discussion Forums. :)

[Sylvander]

I have the K-Lite Codec Pack 3.25 Full (http://www.free-codecs.com/K_Lite_Codec_Pack_download.htm) installed and it has never caused a problem.

Seems that something nasty is happening with Explorer.exe when it is in the process of constructing the Context Menu by retrieving the necessary info from the registry to build it.
Regmon.exe can record the registry accesses.
Filemon.exe can record the other program files Explorer.exe uses for the task.
This last is may show which of the files includes the culprit.
Something is writing to Explorer's memory space, and explorer crashes when it retrieves that inappropriate data.
Is it one of the programs used by Explorer [the one below?] that's doing it? [Since it only happens during this activity]
Fault Module Name: StackHash_18e0