I seem to get this error randomly but quite often. A popup message box appears showing the above message, and these are the details from it: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: IELowutil.exe Application Version: 8.0.7600.16385 Application Timestamp: 4a5bc695 Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll Fault Module Version: 6.1.7600.16385 Fault Module Timestamp: 4a5bdbdf Exception Code: 0eedfade Exception Offset: 0000b727 OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID: 4105 Additional Information 1: e4ae Additional Information 2: e4ae116e66562a803941a33f7745338a Additional Information 3: 2cc0 Additional Information 4: 2cc05e525eb58e88a7e93ced513394af After you dismiss the warning, another popup comes up, with an Internet Explorer logo, and says: "Runtime error 217 at 0018900B". I'm not really using Internet Explorer, my default browser is Firefox, so I don't know why it should even come up. Any idea what it is?

Hi, What does ielowutil.exe have to do with Internet Explorer 8.0? http://blogs.msdn.com/askie/archive/2009/03/12/what-does-ielowutil-exe-have-to-do-with-internet-explorer-8-0.aspx 1. Does the behavior persist (in IE8 32-bit) if you Reset IE Advanced settings (RIES)? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737 2. What anti-virus application or security suite is installed, is your subscription current, and is it supported in Win7? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party firewall (if any)? 3. Has another Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on this machine (e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)? 4. If you uninstall Chrome, reassert IE as your default browser, and then run this fix, does the behavior persist? => http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=4c894d24ab6fac2d&hl=en PS: What do you think of the effects installing/uninstalling Chrome (which is still in beta) has on the Registry?Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi, What does ielowutil.exe have to do with Internet Explorer 8.0? http://blogs.msdn.com/askie/archive/2009/03/12/what-does-ielowutil-exe-have-to-do-with-internet-explorer-8-0.aspx 1. Does the behavior persist (in IE8 32-bit) if you Reset IE Advanced settings (RIES)? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737 Well, I'll give that a shot. 2. What anti-virus application or security suite is installed, is your subscription current, and is it supported in Win7? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party firewall (if any)? 3. Has another Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on this machine (e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)? I use AVG as my resident antivirus, and various utilities as my anti-spyware, none of which are running resident. Don't use Norton or McAfee, and will never ever use them. They were never originally installed on my machine, as I built my own machine from scratch. 4. If you uninstall Chrome, reassert IE as your default browser, and then run this fix, does the behavior persist? => http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=4c894d24ab6fac2d&hl=en PS: What do you think of the effects installing/uninstalling Chrome (which is still in beta) has on the Registry? Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. ” I'm not sure why you're bringing up Chrome? It's irrelevant, I said in the original message that my default browser is Firefox, not Chrome. I won't be uninstalling Firefox, I'd rather uninstall Internet Explorer, but that's of course impossible under Windows. However, I still happen to get these Internet Explorer messages popping up at random times even though I don't use it. So I'm just trying to get rid of the IE messages while peacefully browsing in Firefox.

Hi, I suppose your issue is caused by the AVG, please try to uninstall it to have a test. Because it does not play nice with IE8. Otherwise, please do not install so many anti-virus softwares, only one is enough. Sometimes they may conflict with another one.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

please download this reg file from my SkyDrive: http://cid-128fc518635be2dc.office.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/MS%20Foren/Registry/LocalDumps.reg and make a double click on the file to import it. When an application crashes, Windows Error Reporting Service [1] creates a dmp file under C:\Localdumps. Please upload the dump (zip it first) to your public Skydrive [2] folder and post the link here. I take a look at the dump with the Debugger, maybe I can see the cause. André [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787181%28VS.85%29.aspx [2] http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/4fc10639-02db-4665-993a-08d865088d65"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

Hi, I suppose your issue is caused by the AVG, please try to uninstall it to have a test. Because it does not play nice with IE8. Otherwise, please do not install so many anti-virus softwares, only one is enough. Sometimes they may conflict with another one. Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. ” I don't have many anti-virus software installed, just one, AVG. As I said, I never had Norton or McAfee ever installed on this system, at least since it's been running Windows 7 anyways. Anyway, I'm trying your suggestion of resetting IE. I'll see if there's another crash sometime soon. As I said, the crashes happen randomly, I haven't determined anything that causes a recurring crash yet.

please download this reg file from my SkyDrive: http://cid-128fc518635be2dc.office.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/MS%20Foren/Registry/LocalDumps.reg and make a double click on the file to import it. When an application crashes, Windows Error Reporting Service [1] creates a dmp file under C:\Localdumps. Please upload the dump (zip it first) to your public Skydrive [2] folder and post the link here. I take a look at the dump with the Debugger, maybe I can see the cause. André [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787181%28VS.85%29.aspx [2] http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/4fc10639-02db-4665-993a-08d865088d65 "A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/ Can you tell me what that registry file does before I run it on my registry?

it adds a key to generate dumps when an application crashes. Read the link under [1] to see that it changes. You can open it with notepad to see it."A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

Okay, I finally got another ielowutil crash, and it produced the following dump file. Appreciate what you can tell me about it. http://cid-56f77fa4ad5dbacf.skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?resid=56F77FA4AD5DBACF!104

WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong. AllChr32+0x900b AllChr32+0x3d74 ntdll!LdrpCallInitRoutine+0x14 ntdll!LdrpRunInitializeRoutines+0x26f ntdll!LdrpLoadDll+0x4d1 ntdll!LdrLoadDll+0x92 KERNELBASE!LoadLibraryExW+0x178 user32!__ClientLoadLibrary+0x66 ntdll!KiUserCallbackDispatcher+0x2e user32!VerNtUserCreateWindowEx+0x1a9 user32!_CreateWindowEx+0x210 user32!CreateWindowExW+0x33 IELowutil!CreateWorkerWindow+0x71 IELowutil!RegisterClassFactory+0xfb IELowutil!wWinMain+0x1ca IELowutil!_initterm _e+0x1b1 this DLL: Image path: C:\Program Files (x86)\AllChars\AllChr32.dll Image name: AllChr32.dll Timestamp: Sat Jun 20 00:22:17 1992 (2A425E19) CheckSum: 00000000 ImageSize: 00015000 File version: 4.0.321.0 Product version: 4.0.321.0 File flags: 0 (Mask 3F) File OS: 4 Unknown Win32 File type: 2.0 Dll File date: 00000000.00000000 Translations: 0409.04e4 CompanyName: Jeroen Laarhoven ProductName: AllChars for Windows InternalName: AllChr32 OriginalFilename: AllChr32 ProductVersion: 4 FileVersion: 4.0.321.0 FileDescription: Hook DLL for AllChars LegalCopyright: FREEWARE, Copyright © 1994-2001: Jeroen Laarhoven, Zwolle, Netherlands is the cause. It doesn't seem to be LowIL/UAC compatible. remove the program to fix the crashes. André"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

this DLL: Image path: C:\Program Files (x86)\AllChars\AllChr32.dll Image name: AllChr32.dll Timestamp: Sat Jun 20 00:22:17 1992 (2A425E19) CheckSum: 00000000 ImageSize: 00015000 File version: 4.0.321.0 Product version: 4.0.321.0 File flags: 0 (Mask 3F) File OS: 4 Unknown Win32 File type: 2.0 Dll File date: 00000000.00000000 Translations: 0409.04e4 CompanyName: Jeroen Laarhoven ProductName: AllChars for Windows InternalName: AllChr32 OriginalFilename: AllChr32 ProductVersion: 4 FileVersion: 4.0.321.0 FileDescription: Hook DLL for AllChars LegalCopyright: FREEWARE, Copyright © 1994-2001: Jeroen Laarhoven, Zwolle, Netherlands is the cause. It doesn't seem to be LowIL/UAC compatible. remove the program to fix the crashes. André "A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/ Interesting, why would it even be involved with the ielowutil? I'll remove it, and monitor the situation for a few days before I mark it as the answer. Thanks. This program was something I have used since this computer ran XP, it's used to type accented & special text characters that aren't part of the standard keyboard. So I can live without it, but I'll have to find an alternative for it at some point. I checked its homepage (link ), and it says it's compatible with XP, and partly compatible with Vista, and no mention of W7. So it looks like something starting with Vista became incompatible with it.

So it looks like something starting with Vista became incompatible with it. it is not UAC (Low Integrity level) compatible. "A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/