Windows Vista Strange Problem - x.exe is not a valid Win32 application

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Re: Vista

Re: Vista

Maurice Bos wrote:
> On my pc I had also have two anti-virus applications running. Uninstalled one of them, but still got the same problems. :-(


And that problem would be?

I'm afraid that no one can help if you don't provide at least a
modicum of pertinent information.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375
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Re: Vista

Re: Vista

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:39:08 -0700, Maurice Bos wrote:

> On my pc I had also have two anti-virus applications running.
> Uninstalled one of them, but still got the same problems. :-(



If this was meant as a follow-up to an earlier message, be aware that
none of us knows what you are talking about. Please, in the future,
remember that you need to *reply* to the older message, not start a
new thread. You also need to quote the message you are replying to, as
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Re: Vista

Re: Vista

In article <20087185396maurice@bosbyte.nl>, Maurice Bos says...
> On my pc I had also have two anti-virus applications running. Uninstalled one of them, but still got the same problems. :-(

I replied to the original message with this, for those who can't see
more than a few days back:

In article <ABA64EC7-DAB7-4857-A95C-B95BB87EB025@microsoft.com>,
bbennett@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> I have a strange problem involving a machine running Windows Vista SP1.
> The machine is a Intel Core 2 Duo @2.4 Ghz with 2 GB of RAM and 2 320 GB
> Hard drives running in RAID 1. It has an ATI Radeon x1950.
>
> I never shut my machine down unless I'm going on vacation, so I've noticed
> that
> every few days I obtain these symptoms:
>
> - Some applications refuse to start, producing the error "x.exe is not a
> valid Win32
> application" .. Where x.exe could be anything, such as Firefox, cmd,
> taskmgr, etc.
> Some applications continue to run fine, other applications produce this
> error even
> though they are installed properly.
> - CTRL-ALT-DEL stops working. No screen comes up asking what you want to do
> anymore. Attempting to manually run taskmgr produces the symptom above.
> - Windows refuses to shut down. Going through the start menu and clicking on
> the Shutdown button results in nothing happening. Literally nothing. It just
> sits there.

If you have SP1 installed, there is a 'reliability and performance'
update that I think is not yet part of Windows Update.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952709/en-us

One of the fixes:

? This update improves the reliability of Windows Vista SP1-based
computers that experience issues in which large applications cannot run
after the computer is turned on for extended periods of time. For
example, when you try to start Excel 2007 after the computer is turned
on for extended periods of time, a user may receive an error message
that resembles the following:
EXCEL.EXE is not a valid Win32 application

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