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    Discussion in 'Asus' started by jasperchan, May 6, 2012.

  1. jasperchan

    jasperchan Notebook Geek

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    I don't care what this is, but why does it stop working and shut down my window when i cycle through photo files??? I googled for solutions, and as usual, there are 49279442 possible causes and 23189743479 possible solutions
     
    jasperchan, May 6, 2012
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    davidricardo86 Notebook Deity

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    I've seen this on my computer too, wth is it?
     
    davidricardo86, May 6, 2012
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  3. jasperchan

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    bump for solutions???
     
    jasperchan, May 23, 2012
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    Another Bump For Solutions???
     
    jasperchan, Jun 1, 2012
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    As far as I know, the COM Surrogate is a limited/duplicate dummy version of the remote procedure call engine, intended to allow extra software to add functions to the core libraries. The thing is that these extra functions need to support a particular version of the dll/dynamic libraries, same as the one in the core, or else the functions fail. And these libraries are never updated with thought of version consistency (even when they don't actually update the function set).

    When they fail, it then hangs all kinds of functions whatever you were doing depends on, since it's in effect part of the core libraries. It's extremely common. Everyone has this sooner or later.

    And there's no real fix to this except installing the newest and hopefully updated program pack. Otherwise, uninstall the program that uses whatever shell-extension that causes the problem (preview, right-click context function, thumbnailer, google-bar, extra menu item you don't use, smilies, greeting, paper-clip assistant, whatever) - and then reinstall it with the option to not install the shell-extensions. Possibly find an alternative program, or a separate application. I.e., a picture viewer that automatically fetch your pictures folder, and feeds scales and crops to a different target, that kind of thing, and that supports sending file-types to photoshop via context-menu, etc.

    (..aaaaannd.. then you install linux, and observe your mental state improve noticeably over time. As your work doesn't constantly disappear or break for no reason, or for no reason you could have anticipated, etc.

    Seriously, though. Download a live-image, put it on a usb stick or something. Don't install it or do anything irreversible. Just boot it and use it for a while, and see how it works. If it's enough for your daily use, well... Saves you a lot of grief, you know.)
     
    nipsen, Jun 2, 2012
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  6. jasperchan

    jasperchan Notebook Geek

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    I have no idea what is a dynamic library, shell extension, thumbnailer, remote procedure call engine, live-image, etc...
     
    jasperchan, Jun 3, 2012
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    haha. Sorry about that. It's either one of the right-click menu items you have. Or it's a codec pack that launches a preview for example when you select particular files. That they cause hangs is very common.

    You could install something like this: ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows
    And take a look at the things that are running.

    But yeah, there are about 300 billion different solutions to any of the billion different problems..
     
    nipsen, Jun 3, 2012
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  8. jasperchan

    jasperchan Notebook Geek

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    in other words, there's no solution. Just wow.
     
    jasperchan, Jun 13, 2012
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