Desktop X Buffer Overrun Error Message

What The Heck Happened?

Published on April 9, 2006 By Rutabaga64 In Stardock Support General

Out of the blue, when I booted my computer this morning, I got an error message telling me that a buffer overrun had been detected in desktopx.exe...this buffer overrun had corrupted the program, so Desktop X had to shut down because it was not useable. I decided to uninstall Desktop X, then reinstall it through Stardock Central, I rebooted after installation, and then got the same darn message. My weather widget actually loaded just fine, but when I went into the objects folder and picked an object at random to load, I got the same buffer overrun error. So apparently widgets are useable, but the rest of program is toast.

How do I fix this? Help, please.

Comments

thomassen

on Apr 09, 2006

hm.. I really got no clue, but have you tried reinstalling Windows Script? It seem to sovle alot of issues with DX. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C717D943-7E4B-4622-86EB-95A22B832CAA&displaylang=en

Rutabaga64

on Apr 10, 2006

*bump*

Haven't tried that yet, but it's definitely an option.

Any other suggestions?

Bichur

on Apr 10, 2006

Link

if all else fails, try the link in #15

Rutabaga64

on Apr 10, 2006

Wow, thank you, Sir Bichur, it worked!!!

Bichur

on Apr 10, 2006

aimzzz

on Apr 10, 2006

Bichur rules!

Jonathan18

on Jan 14, 2009

Bichur

reply 3

Link

if all else fails, try the link in #15

I need help with this also, mine has been doing this for a long time and i never could fix it, then finally found this page but i dont know what you mean when you say #15? could you please send me the link to where i need to go? thank you

Bichur

on Jan 15, 2009

they changed the formatting and paths of the forums since 2006 so the 1st link didn't work

what used to be

https://www.wincustomize.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=168&AID=92011

is now

https://forums.wincustomize.com/92011

in reply #15 at the above link you will find a link to tgnforums.stardock:

http://tgnforums.stardock.com/index.aspx?ForumID=162&AID=85407#697544

there, check reply #3

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