Explorer.exe error whenever i right click!

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> PC is HP Pavilion m703, 2.8Ghz Pentium4, 1Gb DDR-SDRAM 333Mhz, 120Gb HD
>
> Whenever i right click on any icons or whenever i try to cut, paste etc
the
> following error appears
>
> explorer.exe - Application Error
>
> The instruction at "0x1000a9fb" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The
> memory could not be written.
>
> click ok and i lose everything bar the background for a second and then
it
> goes back to the start menu with all applications closed. Works
perfectly
> until im stupid enough to right click again.
>
> Final thing, i might be wrong but i think this happened while installing
> one of the Windows automatic updates.
>
> Craig
>

If explorer crashes everytime you right click, you are probably seeing the
incompatibility between the current version of divx and SP2. This is being
reported by multiple people.

Divx is a video compression technology that many people have installed on
their system.

The divx people are working on it. You can reference their forums posts
regarding the subject here:

http://forums.divx.com/viewtopic.p [...] 22&forum=9
http://forums.divx.com/viewtopic.p [...] 20&forum=5