explorer always crashes in Vista Final

[Guest]

Hello,

I just downloaded Vista Final German x86 from MSDN and upgraded my XP
machine. It's an absolutely horrible scenario.
At first, the whole Upgrade process took 3,5 hours! (imagine!) Machine is P4
2.4 GHz with 160GB SATA and 1GB RAM.

But OK, no problem I thought.

Now I'm facing to a VERY STRANGE Problem:
Whenver I logon and try to open "Control Panel" or whatever application
based on explorer.exe the window border open for a very short moment (1 sec)
and closes. It seems that explorer crashes everytime, because the taskbar is
always restored and opened again.

I tried everything, even as Administrator.
Still no luck .. I can't even run "Windows Update" or run chkdsk. It seems
that I don't have appropiate permissions to run such programs related to
explorer.exe. It always says "File access error (-1073740940)".

I don't know how to go on .. any suggestion?

I think this is a very bad advertise for Microsoft when even the Vista Final
fails to Upgrade an existing XP correctly. What do the guys at Microsoft
think about such a buggy final version?? (I remember those times when
upgrading W2K to XP, that worked like a charm)

Regards
Sven

 

[Guest]

Hello.

In safe mode the system and explorer is accessible.
Eventlog says the following:

Explorer.exe Error in module ntdll.dll, Version 6.0.6000.16386, Erroroffset
0x000af1c9. What's that for a bug?