luckman212 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I am trying to debug some problems I'm having with Explorer.exe crashing while drawing icons. I can reproduce this by clicking on the Desktop and then just holding down 'F5' to constantly refresh the screen over and over. Eventually explorer dies and respawns. So I'm using ShellExView to try to isolate rogue Shell Extensions. I noticed Paint.NET installs one called "ShellExtension_x64.dll". What is the purpose of this? Is it for Thumbnail generation? Can it be safely disabled without adverse effect? Thanks for any info. P.S. My system is Win8 x64 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midora Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 You need it to allow the explorer to extract the thumbnail from a .pdn file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckman212 Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 Thanks - ok so if I don't need that particular function, I can disable it I guess. I think it might be causing crashes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I doubt it, but it can't hurt to try. 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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