DX crashes
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 by Snowman | Discussion: DesktopX
Whenever I launch DX, Vista reports that DX has "stopped working"
The error/reason reported is always this:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
application Name: DesktopX.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 44a445d6
Fault Module Name: Secur32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bdd2
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000021f4
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1030
Additional Information 1: 2d52
Additional Information 2: cd988db40a452416f8c8866e95cba840
Additional Information 3: 2a0f
Additional Information 4: 1cd01dd7cd017b335f67a27d9876f856
Latest DX installed: 3.02.044 (from SDC)
Any thoughts?
Reply #5 Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:44 AM
I've heard it said that it stands for:
U-p
M-y
P-ost
Reply #6 Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:34 PM
My
Ugly
P...
[poodle? pixel? pooter?...]
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Beware
My
Uncivil
Posting
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Because
My
Uncle's the
President
Reply #8 Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:58 PM
My
Underwear's
Pitted!
Better
Mind
Ur
Ps(and Qs)...
Big
M-----------
Ugly
Pistol!
Bicyclists
May
Upset
Periodically
Reply #9 Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:34 PM
Hmm...
I see that secur32.dll and wonder why this is making DX crash. I am actually running Vista Ultimate with DEP ON, and it is running okay (once I get passed the "would you like to run this?" after double clicking it). I have never heard of DEP helping the situation any though.
Are you not able to run either the client or builder? (desktopx.exe and dxbuilder.exe)
Are you able to run gadgets at all? (If you do not have any, I can provide one to test)
If you install SmartException from the 'Free Stuff' section and get DX to crash, does SmartEx catch anything? If so, could you send that in to [email protected] ?
Bring
Unto
Me,
Philes
-Mike
[Stardock Support]
Reply #10 Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:20 PM
Nope, both crashes.
SE is now installed, and it picked up all DX crashes. Results are in the mail! 
Reply #11 Monday, May 28, 2007 3:35 PM
Reply #12 Monday, June 18, 2007 12:31 PM
Dang... I'd forgotten all about this... hehe
No solution found yet, DX still won't work. I haven't heared anything from SD Support in quite a while either. (Pokes Mike with a BIG stick....)
I bet he (happyli) forgot all about this 
B-urry
U-nwanted
M-echanical
B-abes
Reply #13 Monday, June 18, 2007 3:51 PM
Hey Snowman, sorry for my delay. Thank you (and Hankers) for the nudge
This issue had unfortunately become lost and stuck somewhere within the cobwebs of my brain.
I had spoken with the lead developer of DesktopX on this a while back though had not come up with anything helpful 
Have either of you (or anyone else experiencing this problem) tried creating another user account w/ admin access and using DesktopX from there?
Murex: Is your crash information indicating a dll is at fault? Do you have any security apps (like antivirus or antispyware) running on your system?
-Mike
[Stardock Support]
Reply #14 Monday, June 18, 2007 9:12 PM
Nope, but will try it for sure.
Reply #15 Tuesday, June 19, 2007 10:00 AM
Great! I look forward to (hopefully) hearing some good news
-Mike
[Stardock Support]
Reply #16 Wednesday, June 20, 2007 1:53 PM
WHATEVER
YOU
DID
DONT CHANGE IT!
The latest DX update on SDC fixed it!!!
Snowman does the Happy Hippy Handstand Dance
Now I can moderate DXwedgies again
Reply #17 Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:03 PM
excellent
seeing the beast finally slain, I will go back into hibernation... until that time when I should be needed again. (sure wish I could lay claim to some part of fixing the problem though 
)
-Mike
[Stardock Support]
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Reply #1 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:26 PM
UAC enabled?
Running in an Admin account?