It might be a buggy icon thumbnail handler installed by Illustrator. Try
disabling thumbnails
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...ista-explorer/

"tom" <tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> As above-
>
> have a folder that contains 995 files of vector EPS files (for use in
> adobe
> illustrator).
> total folder size is 171mb.
>
> when i open it from the vista explorer it crashes and also if i try to do
> it
> from with illustrator or photoshop.
>
> so maybe there is a corrupt file in there somewhere? but how do i find it?
>
> or can vista not handle big folders?
>
> annoyingly i can view and use the files on my old XP perfectly ok.
>
> any help much appreciated!
>
> these are some error codes that i have got from Event Viewer-
>
> Faulting application Explorer.EXE, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp
> 0x4549b091, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp
> 0x4549bdc9, exception code 0xc0000374, fault offset 0x000af1c9, process id
> 0x1644, application start time 0x01c77777f98d1f7d.
>
> and
>
> System
>
> - Provider
>
> [ Name] Application Error
>
> - EventID 1000
>
> [ Qualifiers] 0
>
> Level 2
>
> Task 100
>
> Keywords 0x80000000000000
>
> - TimeCreated
>
> [ SystemTime] 2007-04-05T11:54:31.000Z
>
> EventRecordID 2490
>
> Channel Application
>
> Computer Turbo3
>
> Security
>
>
> - EventData
>
> Explorer.EXE
> 6.0.6000.16386
> 4549b091
> ntdll.dll
> 6.0.6000.16386
> 4549bdc9
> c0000374
> 000af1c9
> 1644
> 01c77777f98d1f7d
>