Compressing NTFS Drive Causes Access Violation in Explorer.exe
Article ID: 179711
Article Last Modified on 6/5/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.01
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 128-Bit Edition
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
This article was previously published under Q179711
SYMPTOMS
When you compress or uncompress a drive that uses the NT file system
(NTFS) on a computer running Internet Explorer, you may receive the
following Dr. Watson error message:
Explorer.exe - Exception: access violation (0xc0000005)
STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
MORE INFORMATION
This error message occurs after the compression or uncompression of the
drive using NTFS is complete. You may not receive this error message when
you compress or uncompress a folder or file on a drive using NTFS. The
Active Desktop component of Internet Explorer does not affect this
behavior.
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