I made a Jira, image format change isn't going to help as this happens with ANY open file dialog. Here is my issue in extensive detail and the Jira link
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-28843
OK I will start by saying I do not have a prebuilt system, and the Windows 7 installation does not have any bundled software. The only security software I am running is Anti-Malwarebytes... which I have temporarily disabled until this issue is resolved.
The issue is upon trying to either upload any asset or bulk the viewer crashes BEFORE the open dialog appears, this also happens on trying to save a snapshot to the hard disk, and trying to change the cache location in Preferences. I have tried the following (in this order)
Clear cache
Uninstall/reinstall Second Life using the uninstaller and reinstalling the latest standard viewer
Uninstalling Second Life and using an older version
Uninstalling Second Life and using Firestorm (same issue occurred)
Uninstalling Firestorm and clearing out my %Appdata% folder of ALL SecondLife stuff and reinstalling the latest version of Second Life
Uninstalling Second Life, removing everything from my msconfig startup, removing all entries tagged with "SecondLife" and "Second Life" from the registry and restarting. then reinstalling Second Life
Disabling ALL 3rd party services and keeping only Microsoft services enabled from msconfig dialog, and removing ALL startup entries
Installed Development, Beta and Second Life viewers and tried multiple versions of each
Kick the computer, bang the keyboard and swear loudly, restart Second Life and try again
Disable Aero and ran as administrator
Uninstalled and reinstalled as administrator
Change UAC settings
Disable and enable various Windows features
Re-enable all previously disabled services and settings, uninstall Second Life, Restart, Reinstall Second Life
Install more ram as second life uses a lot (I tried installing an extra 4GB in one of the free RAM slots despite the fact I already have 32GB, this obviously didn't help, I tried with just the 4GB stick in and this didn't help either)
*Update graphics card drivers (they are the latest beta version from www.nvidia.com - the standard ones do not work with my GTX 560ti 448 core 2GB)
Updated other various system drivers and checked for windows updates
After spending the best part of a day, none of this has fixed the issue. After extensive Google searching, research and asking in various Second Life related groups I have come to the conclusion that Second Life has some sort of showstopper bug (Second Life is a content creation platform, i cannot create content. therefor this bug is classified as a showstopper) in the code, and has a compatibility issue with my hardware and/or software choice. I have paid work in Second Life which at this time I am unable to complete, having this issue resolved is VERY important to me.
The following is a list of everything installed on my machine
Adobe Photoshop CS6
Autodesk 3ds Max 2013 x64
SecondLifeViewer (remove only)
Mozilla Firefox 12.0 (x86 en-US)
Microsoft SkyDrive
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware version 1.61.0.1400
FileZilla Client 3.5.3
StarCraft II
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistriburable
XNResourceEditor 3.0.0.1
Steam
Quake
The Binding of Isaac
Notepad++
Skype 5.9
Adobe Flash Player 11 Plugin 64-bit
Java 6 Update 31
VTFEdit 1.2.5
Dropbox
Garry's Mod
Garry's Mod 13 Beta
iTunes
Unity
Paint.net 3.5.10
Media Player Classic - Home Cinema
CCleaner
Speccy
My NVidia driver version is: GeForce 301.24 Driver BETA - 301.24 9.4.2012
Hardware accoring to Speccy:
Operating System
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i3/i5/i7 @ 3.20GHz 35 °C
Sandy Bridge-E/EP 32nm Technology
RAM
31.9 GB DDR3 @ 800MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X79-UD5 (SOCKET 0) 28 °C
Graphics
Standard Monitor (2880x1800@60Hz)
DELL 2007FP (1600x1200@60Hz)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Hard Drives
234GB ATA Corsair Force 3 SCSI Disk Device (SATA)
59GB ATA Corsair Force 3 SCSI Disk Device (SATA)
977GB FUJITSU MARVELL Raid VD 0 SCSI Disk Device (SATA)
Optical Drives
PIONEER BD-RW BDR-206 SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio