Rick Brewster Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 A few questions: 1. What view in Explorer are you using? List, Detail, Icon, Thumbnail, or ... ? 2. If you uninstall Paint.NET does the error still occur? If so, does it continue to happen after a restart? I've filed a bug too, to keep track of this. Thanks. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 16, 2005 Author Share Posted October 16, 2005 Hmm, interesting. I am able to easily recreate this! So it is definitely not something like a configuration peculiarity with your computer. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 16, 2005 Author Share Posted October 16, 2005 I have tracked down the problem. The DLL for GDI+ is not installed to the system directory along with .NET, so when our extension tries to use it we get a crash instead of a graceful error return. A workaround for now is to copy the following file: %WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\gdiplus.dll to the following directory: %WINDIR%\System32 %WINDIR% is usually C:\WINDOWS or C:\WINNT. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pc dokter Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 How does it come that the file gdiplus.dll is not in the directory %WINDIR%\System32 ? The strange thing is that i also have win2k, but that the dll is in the system32 directory. My Dutch version of win2k has all the patches realesed by microsoft. I am using Paint.NET 2.5 beta 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 17, 2005 Author Share Posted October 17, 2005 Pc, on XP and Server 2003 it is always there. On Win2K, it depends on if anything places the file there, I suppose. I don't know why .NET installs gdiplus.dll to the Framework directory instead of to %WINDIR%\System32. :? Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 17, 2005 Author Share Posted October 17, 2005 By the way, this is fixed in the Beta 4 that was just released. In Windows 2000, thumbnails will not be available unless gdiplus.dll is in the system directory (%WINDIR%\System32). I figure this is highly preferable to crashing Explorer. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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