Re: [Boost-users] problems installing boost -- explorer.exe Application error

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] problems installing boost -- explorer.exe Application error
From: Gordon Smith (spider.karma+boost.org_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-19 12:02:40

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Paul Epstein <pauldepstein_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> I have been trying to install the latest version of Boost from sourceforge.net.
> I have a Windows Vista operating system. I downloaded the boost.zip file and the
> boost-jam.zip file.  I was able to extract the boost-jam file without problems.
>  However, whenever I try and extract the boost.zip file to a folder I created I
> get the message:  explorer.exe - Application Error  The exception unknown
> software exception (0xc000000d) occurred in the application at 0x75afc02c.
>

From
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/more/getting_started/windows.html

"We don't recommend using Windows' built-in decompression as it can be
painfully slow for large archives."

I've found that XP Explorer is not only slow, but fails at this job
also. WinZip or 7Zip work fine.