Jay Honeck wrote:

Like many of you, I keep a LOT of pictures on my hard drive. Also,
like many of you, I use Adobe Photoshop to crop and enhance my photos.

I have had an infuriating problem with Windows Explorer (in Win XP,
both Home and Professional) crashing instantly and utterly when trying
to open a folder with many .jpg picture files in it. It wouldn't do it
all the time, but when it did, it was always fatal -- there was no
warning, and no work-around.


What's a lot of pictures? I have 5 folders, labeled by year for the
last 5 years. Each folder has several hundred pictures. 90+ percent of
the pictures have been fixed or cropped and every one of them has had
their name changed. Every one of them is a jpg. I use 3 different
programs for working with these pictures, but Photoshop is not one of
them. Not once has windows or just windows explorer crashed. I've
never even heard of the problem.