Saving .tif Files Crashes Program or Explorer.exe

I am having a very odd problem with my PC.

System specifications are as follows:

Intel Core Duo T2400 1.83ghz
2gb DDR2 667mhz Dual Channel
80gb 5,400rpm HDD
Windows XP Home SP2

One of my hobbies is photography and I often shoot images in the RAW format for post processing on my PC. What I want to do is to load up the RAW file in a program (s7RAW, RAW Therapee, etc...) do my post processing and output the file as a .tif. But whenever I try to save a tif file in any program, the program crashes and/or windows explorer crashes.

I am totally lost on the matter.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

I doubt I can help, but I've got a couple questions anyways. Have those programs on that computer with that camera's files ever worked before? Do other file formats save successfully?

Here's hoping it's something stupid, like a full hard drive

 

If you open a small JPG and save it as a TIF, does the computer crash, or is it only when you are converting RAW to TIF? Have you checked your temp directories and/or cleaned them out? Have you checked your registry for errors?

Massively large images consume vast resources. It could be that the processing/saving is simply using up all resources. If you have Photoshop/Paint Shop Pro/etc, are you able to save the files in the program's default filetype?

 

and how about logs? If explorer is crashing, it might be worth looking at the eventlogs in control panel -> administrative tools -> event viewer, for hints.

 

Every other format saves fine but not tiff, I forgot to mention that the tiff files that do not save we usually pretty large (over 10mb).

 

So, can you save small tiffs? Have you tried any of my suggestions?

 

Ok, this came up when I tried to open a folder with some converted tiffs inside... the second I click on the folder to get to the files it crashes.

The error is because of the gdiplus.dll

 

What's the exact error message?