Problem with My Pictures!!!!

[bliss.sid]

There seems to be a problem with the My Pictures folder located in My Documents....whenever i open it,a windows explorer popup screen says there's an error with explorer..."Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
My Pictures cannot also be used with any other application,eg.setting up Avatars or when creating a DVD title menu(as in using a background display picture).

Since I use ZoneAlarm whenever i open the my pictures folder a program alert appears saying windows explorer is trying to communicate with vsmon.exe...on clicking deny the explorer error pops up.
I tried copying the pictures in the folder to an empty hard drive partition but instead the hard drive partition stopped working...i.e. the same explorer error popped up,making the partition inaccessible.
I then had to format the partition.

And also,as soon as I open the My Pictures folder and just leave it like that for a few seconds, this message appears:

'The instruction at "0x5dfe6e2b" referenced memory at "0x00000038".The memory could not read.Click Ok to terminate or Cancel to Debug.'

And if i click Cancel Visual C++ opens up!!!???What's going on???!!

Please Help...
Thanks.

[src2206]

You need to allow the communication between vsmon.exe and the explorer. Once you do that, you should not have this problem.

BTW, I would suggest that you try Comodo as a firewall. It will give you far less trouble and more security than ZA.

[Batistabomb]

first remove that zone alarm everything will be ok

[Vishal Gupta]

If you are using "Thumbnails" view in "My Pictures" folder by any chance, then change it to "Details" or any other view.

[speedrider_100]

If you can provide Mod name and mod versions then it will be a little easy... once you get the error message , at the bottom of the page click on - For techinical information click here. and note down - Appname appversion, modname and modversion.