Compressing NTFS Drive Causes Access Violation in Explorer.exe

ID: Q179711

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0, 4.01 for Windows NT 4.0

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.

Additional query words: 4.00

Keywords          : kberrmsg msient NTSrvWkst 
Version           : WINDOWS:4.0,4.01
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: January 27, 1998