explorer.exe crashes constantly

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Ive had Windows Vista Ultimate since its public release.

I keep having the problem of explorer.exe crashing. I cannot get it to
happen on a regular basis... but it happens frequently.

Ill be working along, and suddenly my start/taskbar goes haywire... and
looks all funny. Ill move my mouse down to the lower right area that shows
the programs running... move the mouse back and forth a bit, and then windows
will say "explorer.exe quit unexpectedly" then it "looks for a soulution
online, never finds anything, and restarts.

Has anyone else had this problems? Im running a P4 system with an ATI
Raedon 1650... it really has no other issues.

Thanks everyone....
 
eav said:
I've had it happen 3 times on a two week old system.
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Actually, your problem may not be explorer at all. May I
ask, what you were doing in the explorer/computer
application when this happened?
Were you, per chance copying or moving files?
If you were, copying/moving files, the problem may be
'Volume shadow copy' service failure instead. Chech further
into your logs through the system area and admin tools. I
had a major failure causing the OS to 'eat itself'
literally, forcing me to reinstall 2x in one night. What a
blunder.
 
I have experienced almost exactly the same problem. Explorer.exe
crashes almost constantly, sometimes when trying to cut and paste
files, sometimes just a few seconds after I launch a new program,
sometimes for no apparent reason at all. I haven't observed the same
corruption of the taskbar as you described just a window pops up
saying explorer has been terminated and they are searching for a
solution to the problem. No solution comes back and explorer is
automatically restarted.

I checked my Application event log to see what it says and there
doesn't appear to be any other obvious culprit. It just shows
explorer.exe crashing with different time stamps for each crash.
Interestingly, the fault offset is the same every time: fault offset
0x00042e7b. Don't know if there's any useful information in there.

Would love to find a way to fix this. It's quite annoying. My system
is a Dell Inspiron e1705 laptop, Core Duo, Nvidia Go 7800.

Ollie
 
I have been having the same problem of windows explorer crashing from the
first day I got my Dell xps m1210, last week.

When I disabled the transparency effect it helped a lot but windows
explorer still crashes. So I am quessing the problem may be with the video
driver. I will need to explore that.

But does anyone have a solid answer?
 
Well, I think I have a partial answer. If you have a Dell get the download
for the model appropriate graphics download update. The Dell update
completely fixed the crashing, but slowed down some apps alot especially the
web browsers- firefox, opera and netscape, even IE some. So I uninstalled
and reinstalled all except IE and all is well, again.

If you do not have a Dell try the update if you are adventurous. Or try the
driver download from Nvidia for your graphics card.

Good Luck!

DaveC
 
I have the Vista 64bit version of Ultimate installed on a new machine

ASUS P5W DH Deluxe Motherboard
Intel CPU E6600 (2.4GHz)
Ram 2047 MB
Radeon X1950 Pro Video Card

The machine was built in May this year and ran with no problems until about
the first of July. I then started to get random crashes and reboots of
windows explorer. There has been no new software or hardware added in that
time frame. During the period of typing this message I have once again
received a message that windows explorer was rebooting

I am getting very fustrated. I am also posting on the crash thread since the
machine in the past couple of weeks has also started to crash so that only a
hard reboot will get it going.
 
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:58:00 -0700, shadgron
I have the Vista 64bit version of Ultimate installed on a new machine
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ASUS P5W DH Deluxe Motherboard
Intel CPU E6600 (2.4GHz)
Ram 2047 MB
Radeon X1950 Pro Video Card
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The machine was built in May this year and ran with no problems until about
the first of July. I then started to get random crashes and reboots of
windows explorer. There has been no new software or hardware added
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Are crashes etc. only in Explorer?

If Yes, then 1st suspect is something that has integrated into the
shell, or is part of the namespace.

If No, then 1st suspect is something broader; bad RAM, less likely
hard drive or motherboard caps (it's a new PC), and malware.

Are you overclocking? If so, stop and see if that helps.

Things that can prang Explorer include:
- malware; good like formally scanning Vista64 from WinPE..
- shell integrations; use Nirsoft Shell Extension Viewer
- BHOs; use IE's controls to disable these
- bad disks; ensure all removable disks and storage is ejected
- bad content; disable "gropers" such as thumbnails
- bad or hostile Desktop.ini or Autorun.inf
- bad .CPL files
- check ChkDsk/AutoChk logs; files "fixed"?
- check antivirus logs; any code files "cleaned"?
- bad user profile; try a different user account
Also, try these:
- use the simplist views, i.e. List
- look for namespace objects on desktop, kill
- compare with Safe Mode mileage
- consider using a 3rd-party shell
- consider clearing indexes, web cache, Temp, etc.

Swallowed any updates lately?
Used any registry cleaners lately?


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To one who only has a hammer,
everything looks like a nail
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I will followup further in the areas suggested.
Yes I am automatically receiving the updates from microsoft for Windows and
Office 2007. I have also implemented suggested updates from adobe for flash
and their reader.

I haven't overclocked yet since I always want to make sure my system is
totally stable before attempting to throw anything else in the mix :)
 
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:10:01 -0700, shadgron
I haven't overclocked yet since I always want to make sure my system is
totally stable before attempting to throw anything else in the mix :)
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Absolutely... and frankly, I can barely notice anything under a 50%
CPU speedup anyway, so 90% hardware stability risk for 10% speed gain
doesn't look like a good value proposition.

A PC that's away being fixed for a week is a REALLY slow PC ;-)

I find more benefit in intelligently partitioning large fast hard
drives, so that 90% head travel is concentrated in 5% of the seek
range (irrespective of fragmentation). That really helps speed up the
red HD activity LED, which is usually what I'm waiting for.


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Who is General Failure and
why is he reading my disk?
 
Dave from Metro NY said:
Well, I think I have a partial answer. If you have a Dell get the download
for the model appropriate graphics download update. The Dell update
completely fixed the crashing, but slowed down some apps alot especially the
web browsers- firefox, opera and netscape, even IE some. So I uninstalled
and reinstalled all except IE and all is well, again.

If you do not have a Dell try the update if you are adventurous. Or try the
driver download from Nvidia for your graphics card.

Good Luck!

DaveC
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Dave from Metro NY said:
Well, I think I have a partial answer. If you have a Dell get the download
for the model appropriate graphics download update. The Dell update
completely fixed the crashing, but slowed down some apps alot especially the
web browsers- firefox, opera and netscape, even IE some. So I uninstalled
and reinstalled all except IE and all is well, again.

If you do not have a Dell try the update if you are adventurous. Or try the
driver download from Nvidia for your graphics card.

Good Luck!

DaveC
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Well, the problem is not limited to any certain type of computer. I'm
running Vista home premium on a brand new HP Pavillion dv6000 and have the
exact same problem with the taskbar. I was told that it was a software
problem, used my recovery disc, lost all my documents that I saved to an
external hard drive, and still have the problem. Help!!
 
Here is what I have found in the recent time...I have the problem only when I
have Internet Explorer open...I have tested this theory on a few occations
and it always works the same...Internet Explorer open, windows explorer
crashes...Internet explorer closed, no crash of windows explorer. If anyone
else is having the same please reply and let me know so that I can see what
you fixed it with or see if we can get microsoft to do anything to fix it...
 
Hi,

That's a strong indication that the problem is with a plugin/addon that is
loading with Internet Explorer. Go into tools/internet options/programs tab
and click the button the manage addons. Begin by disabling any non-microsoft
plugins that start with internet explorer.

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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
I just wanted to let everyone know that this worked great...I am currently
testing it and seeing how much of problem with other web pages it causes
me....
 
I saw something similar to this on a Clients Vista machine. Evidently either
the Google Toolbar auto-updated or someone tried installing it. Once the
Google Toolbar was disabled IE and Windows Explorer stopped crashing. We
reinstalled the Google Toolbar after that and it still doesn't crash every
time either is launched. My guess is it was a bad install that caused the
problem.

Allen

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Search for "System Configuration". Then open it (requires admin privileges),
and on the "General" tab, click "Selective Startup" and un-check "Load
startup items". (note: This DOES disable your Gadget Bar)
 
WCSled613 said:
Here is what I have found in the recent time...I have the problem only when I
have Internet Explorer open...I have tested this theory on a few occations
and it always works the same...Internet Explorer open, windows explorer
crashes...Internet explorer closed, no crash of windows explorer. If anyone
else is having the same please reply and let me know so that I can see what
you fixed it with or see if we can get microsoft to do anything to fix it...
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Hi folks,
I have a Toshiba Satellite with Vista pre-installed, and it is really
terrible. Explorer crashes and start to do very strange thigs, if you make a
drag and click with the mouse, you can draw beauty rectangles, the tool bar
blinks and you can't pick up the applications because they literally
escapes... The program Ares accelerates this, so I can't have the system
running more than one entire day, anucase I need to restart...


Any idea, someone?

Thanks you, Marcelo
 
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