Has anyone found the solution to the error message "Windows Explorer has
stopped working" and watch it close and then restart?

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Hi,

Explorer acts like that when there is a conflicting application. Whether
it's spy/adware, an incompatible program, or interfering software is what
you need to determine. Sometimes the problem lies in certain antivirus
applications as well. Try this: Click start and type msconfig, then hit
enter. On the general tab, choose diagnostic mode, then click apply/ok and
reboot. See it the problem continues. If it doesn't (and I don't suspect it
will), move to selective startup mode and just allow a few of the
applications to load in between reboots until the problem returns. Once it
does, you know it is one of the newly reactivated ones.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Swabbie" wrote in message
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Has anyone found the solution to the error message "Windows Explorer has
stopped working" and watch it close and then restart?

--

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

This sounds strange to me, but when I deleted the contents of my download
folder everything seemed to return to normal. Could a program in there have
caused it? I did cut out fluff from startup.

"Rick Rogers" wrote in message
...
Hi,

Explorer acts like that when there is a conflicting application. Whether
it's spy/adware, an incompatible program, or interfering software is what
you need to determine. Sometimes the problem lies in certain antivirus
applications as well. Try this: Click start and type msconfig, then hit
enter. On the general tab, choose diagnostic mode, then click apply/ok
and reboot. See it the problem continues. If it doesn't (and I don't
suspect it will), move to selective startup mode and just allow a few of
the applications to load in between reboots until the problem returns.
Once it does, you know it is one of the newly reactivated ones.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Swabbie" wrote in message
...
Has anyone found the solution to the error message "Windows Explorer has
stopped working" and watch it close and then restart?

--

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Hi,

Yep, as those files load with Internet Explorer and that shares many
processes with explorer.exe.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Swabbie" wrote in message
...
This sounds strange to me, but when I deleted the contents of my download
folder everything seemed to return to normal. Could a program in there
have caused it? I did cut out fluff from startup.

"Rick Rogers" wrote in message
...
Hi,

Explorer acts like that when there is a conflicting application. Whether
it's spy/adware, an incompatible program, or interfering software is what
you need to determine. Sometimes the problem lies in certain antivirus
applications as well. Try this: Click start and type msconfig, then hit
enter. On the general tab, choose diagnostic mode, then click apply/ok
and reboot. See it the problem continues. If it doesn't (and I don't
suspect it will), move to selective startup mode and just allow a few of
the applications to load in between reboots until the problem returns.
Once it does, you know it is one of the newly reactivated ones.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Swabbie" wrote in message
...
Has anyone found the solution to the error message "Windows Explorer has
stopped working" and watch it close and then restart?

--

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

"Swabbie" ha scritto
Has anyone found the solution to the error message "Windows Explorer has
stopped working" and watch it close and then restart?

going linux?
i got used with it. might even feel uncomfortable without

it's sort of a 'soft bsod' which in the nt-based systems, since w2k atleast,
has mostly replaced the unrecoverable crashes of win9* systems.

if you look at your traybar, you'll notice that after recovering in such
cases some icons (task manager for instance) disappear and behave abnormally
till next reboot. and you might not see any longer in the taskbar programs
which alt-tab show currently running.

ciao, ZC