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There is a Dump.txt file on my computer which causes two types of
crashes...The file exists in the Windows directory (not in a subdirectory)....If I call up a directory of files, the normal response from Windows if i place the cursor over a file name, is to display a small rectangular box with file info...If I place the cursor over this Dump.txt file, the cursor gets stuck and after about two minutes, windows crashes with a "kernel stack inpage error", necessitating a reboot...Similarly, if McAfee antivirus software is doing a scan of all files on the computer, when it reaches this file, it freezes and after about a minute, windows crashes with the aforementioned error... What to do ? I can't try to delete the file since windows crashes when i place the cursor over it's name. |
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How does a text file (.txt) cause a crash? Either it's not really a text
file or there's more to the story. --- Leonard Grey Errare Humanum Est aixvms wrote: There is a Dump.txt file on my computer which causes two types of crashes...The file exists in the Windows directory (not in a subdirectory)....If I call up a directory of files, the normal response from Windows if i place the cursor over a file name, is to display a small rectangular box with file info...If I place the cursor over this Dump.txt file, the cursor gets stuck and after about two minutes, windows crashes with a "kernel stack inpage error", necessitating a reboot...Similarly, if McAfee antivirus software is doing a scan of all files on the computer, when it reaches this file, it freezes and after about a minute, windows crashes with the aforementioned error... What to do ? I can't try to delete the file since windows crashes when i place the cursor over it's name. |
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"aixvms" wrote in message ... There is a Dump.txt file on my computer which causes two types of crashes...The file exists in the Windows directory (not in a subdirectory)....If I call up a directory of files, the normal response from Windows if i place the cursor over a file name, is to display a small rectangular box with file info...If I place the cursor over this Dump.txt file, the cursor gets stuck and after about two minutes, windows crashes with a "kernel stack inpage error", necessitating a reboot...Similarly, if McAfee antivirus software is doing a scan of all files on the computer, when it reaches this file, it freezes and after about a minute, windows crashes with the aforementioned error... What to do ? I can't try to delete the file since windows crashes when i place the cursor over it's name. Looks like a logical drive error try this open a command prompt then enter chkdsk /f you will then be asked if you want chkdsk to run at the next reboot say yes (y) then reboot the machine if there was a logical error...it should be fixed If that does not fix the problem... I'd run a harddrive diagnostic... you should be able to download that from the website of your harddrives' manufacturer |
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thanks for your input....i ran chkdsk without the /F command and it indicated
there were file problems to be fixed with /F..I then ran /F command to fix the issues, but a subsequent run of just chkdsk indicated problems were still present. HOWEVER, via the CMD prompt, i used the DEL command to delete the file causing my crashes...To my surprise, the file was deleted and now mcafee can do a full scan of the drive without errors. "philo" wrote: "aixvms" wrote in message ... There is a Dump.txt file on my computer which causes two types of crashes...The file exists in the Windows directory (not in a subdirectory)....If I call up a directory of files, the normal response from Windows if i place the cursor over a file name, is to display a small rectangular box with file info...If I place the cursor over this Dump.txt file, the cursor gets stuck and after about two minutes, windows crashes with a "kernel stack inpage error", necessitating a reboot...Similarly, if McAfee antivirus software is doing a scan of all files on the computer, when it reaches this file, it freezes and after about a minute, windows crashes with the aforementioned error... What to do ? I can't try to delete the file since windows crashes when i place the cursor over it's name. Looks like a logical drive error try this open a command prompt then enter chkdsk /f you will then be asked if you want chkdsk to run at the next reboot say yes (y) then reboot the machine if there was a logical error...it should be fixed If that does not fix the problem... I'd run a harddrive diagnostic... you should be able to download that from the website of your harddrives' manufacturer |
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"aixvms" wrote in message ... thanks for your input....i ran chkdsk without the /F command and it indicated there were file problems to be fixed with /F..I then ran /F command to fix the issues, but a subsequent run of just chkdsk indicated problems were still present. HOWEVER, via the CMD prompt, i used the DEL command to delete the file causing my crashes...To my surprise, the file was deleted and now mcafee can do a full scan of the drive without errors. I am glad you got it I think however that chkdsk /f did infact fix the problem the problem with running chkdsk from a running instance of Windows... is that due to the dynamic nature of the operating system... "errors" will often be found simply due to the changing nature of the OS at any rate...your system will hopefully be OK now "philo" wrote: "aixvms" wrote in message ... There is a Dump.txt file on my computer which causes two types of crashes...The file exists in the Windows directory (not in a subdirectory)....If I call up a directory of files, the normal response from Windows if i place the cursor over a file name, is to display a small rectangular box with file info...If I place the cursor over this Dump.txt file, the cursor gets stuck and after about two minutes, windows crashes with a "kernel stack inpage error", necessitating a reboot...Similarly, if McAfee antivirus software is doing a scan of all files on the computer, when it reaches this file, it freezes and after about a minute, windows crashes with the aforementioned error... What to do ? I can't try to delete the file since windows crashes when i place the cursor over it's name. Looks like a logical drive error try this open a command prompt then enter chkdsk /f you will then be asked if you want chkdsk to run at the next reboot say yes (y) then reboot the machine if there was a logical error...it should be fixed If that does not fix the problem... I'd run a harddrive diagnostic... you should be able to download that from the website of your harddrives' manufacturer |
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