Windows Explorer Has Stopped

[Guest]

When Vista starts I get a message that 'windows explorer has stopped working,
if I cancel, start-up continues, unexpected lock-ups occur, if I allow it to
go through its process it continues in a redundant search for an answer,
restart and sending info to microsoft.....

Is there a fix or answer?

 

[Guest]

I find also that it's extremely slow...

 

[Guest]

have same problem. cant find answer anywhere and also cant do anything on
vista. isnt there a solution dear microsoft team???

 

[John Barnes]

Have you tried ending and restarting explorer.exe with task manager? I had
the same problem with XP

 

[Guest]

let me say that explorer is restarting its self every 5-6 seconds. It never
stops. You can do nothing because everything closes when windows explorer
restarts itself. BUT I solved the problem I Resored my system to an
earlier restore point and voila it worked perfectly again.

 

[Chad Harris]

I don't remember Windows explorer crashes in Vista in the last few builds,
but I might have had some, John but in one build I think about 3 builds ago
from RC2 I had what I'd seen a fair amount on the web in Vista forums--IE
got corrupted or the shell did.

In XP, I've found along these lines that when you get the IE close boxes,
and the Windows explorer close boxes (sorry for any inconvenience including
the mornic one that the errors are written in hex requiring special tools
and training that PTA soccer mom and Nascar dad and the bell shaped curve of
MSFT customers don't have). An appropriate U tube would be to put Dean
Hachamovitch General Manger of IE and his team in the middle of Seattle in
barrels interviewing Seattle passersby say about 3000 of them from 8-5PM as
to how many were born with congenital knowledge of hex or the ability to
decode it.

The tin ear and basic disconnect from reality is showcased bess in the
stupid way error messages are conveyed, and metastatic and ectopic to the
four corners of Windows. The more sophisticated Event Viewer in Vista has
some nice features, and unfortunately they do absolutely nothing to take
care of the inscrutable hex messages for Windows crashes, IE, WE and Office
crashes.

I've found when faced with these, one deterrent is to crank up Task
Man>Applications tab>new> and start iexplore.exe and exploreR.exe and that
can deter about 75% of the pending Windows Explorer, IE and often
mshtml.dll or some of the other .dll labled crashes.

I often follow these by running SFC this way, depicted in MVP Mark Liron's
article for the reasons that MSFT and OEM named partners and MSFT OEM VP
Scott Valerio who is an accountant and has no experience or training
whatsoever as a software engineer (he's purely about da money dat MSFT can
vaccum and scarf up with the deal that leaves customers in a lurch without a
CD) and if someone does have an RTM or gold CD that hasn't been slipstreamed
with the latest service pack which would be SP2, then they want to scan
files from the HD at DLLCache and not a CD that is older than the service
pack--one that RTM'd in 2001.


http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html

and by reregistering the .dlls named in this MSKB even though the title is
for another situation--that of IE not connecting to the web.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902932

1. Click Start, click Run, type regsvr32 urlmon.dll in the Open box,
and then click OK.
2. Click OK when you receive the following message:
DllRegisterServer in urlmon.dll succeeded
3. Repeat steps 1 and step 2 for the rest of the DLL files by
replacing the regsvr32 urlmon.dll command in the Open box with the following
commands: • regsvr32 actxprxy.dll
• regsvr32 shdocvw.dll
• regsvr32 mshtml.dll
• regsvr32 browseui.dll
• regsvr32 jscript.dll
• regsvr32 vbscript.dll
• regsvr32 oleaut32.dll



CH

 

[Chad Harris]

I should add that in Vista some of those .dlls don't rereg and that is
probably due to changes with Vista in them.

CH

 

[Guest]

I have a very similar problem. I have just upgraded my XP2 system to Vista
using the software provided by Microsoft as a Microsoft Partner. Windows
explorer terminates ('Windows Explorer has stopped'), as soon as it starts
(but then restarts ok) and whenever you try and use it to access a file.

The GUI that authorises running new software loads and updates also
terminates whenever you try and run it, making it impossible to update
programs that Vista recommends be updated (such as Firefox).

Internet Explorer terminates on start-up (thank god for Firefox or I would
be really screwed.).

Basically at this point I think my only option is to trash Vista and return
to XP2.

Any ideas?

Thank you

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Guest]

i am affraid i have bad news...
i have the same windows explorer problem... restarting every 5 seconds... i
stopped it from task manager... but it is not a solution...
not even with the system restore program didn't work for me...
the problem is due to a strange trojan virus that even my antivirus didn't
detect...
i am affraid i have to format the system partition...
i need help
Adrian

 

[Guest]

it does not work... i tried it twice... at 2 different history points...
my win explorer problem i think is due to a trojan virus that my antivirus
doesn't detect...
i need help!

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

Do you have a fault bucket number in the Program Reports and Solutions
center:
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#bucket
?

 

[Guest]

Mine is doing the same thing. I can access my primary drive in Explorer, but
if I try to access either of my other drives, or try to write something to CD
or DVD, Explorer stops responding. When I close it my desktop disappears,
even though Desktop Manager is still running according to Task Manager. Mine
isn't restarting every 5 seconds, though. I'm to the point where I'm tired
of dealing with this ridiculously expensive piece of doodoo, and am thinking
of going back to XP. Problem there is, I'll have to pay for a new license.
What a racket they've got!

 

[Kcpirana]

That's interesting that you get it when you try to write to a DVD or CD. I
get it every time I try to use the Slideshow in my Pictures file and,
occasionally, just when I have the photos enlarged and am simply forwarding
through them myself. I have A LOT of photos and would like to use the
Slideshow feature, but I've basically given up.

Kristy

 

[Guest]

i am having same problem.

am on a clean install of vista home premium and win explorer keeps stopping,
i can stop via tm but pc locks up and have to reboot.


it tends to be when installing downloaded applications (safe ones) or
browsing other areas. also seems to be taking yonks to extract zip files - 4
hours for a 25 mb file!!!!!!!

 

[Guest]

I also had the same problem. I worked until 4 am to remove it. There is one
discussion group with 140 replies somewhere! You have trojans. In the end I
did what most peole did. Go to control panel; it may mean using the
cont.alt.del access. Type in "c:\" Go to Programs and Features and right
click the install date column, no matter how much a bore uninstall everything
to the day before the trouble started - not a big deal and not a long time.
Even the novel spyware and virus detectors (AVG particularly : 50 million?
What is this - for free?). In the list you will find a 'windows safety
alert' and that must go - and when it does the whole thing improves
dramatically. It is a trojan itself. Uninstall norton security and run
Macafee and then download Spybot. Spybot picks up what Norton and Macavee
miss! 37 viruses and trojans - not just cookies! Once clean, decide about
permanent virus - I have kept Mcavee because it picked up what Norton missed
and hang on to spybot, the next day it found 5 more which must have a time
delay on them. Is your user account control off - if you're in Vista? That
lets them in... Kind regards DB.

 

[Guest]

I had the same problem. I have a workaround if System Restore fails to
correct this. For me, It even occured in Safe Mode.
1. Make your way to starting Internet Explorer
2. on the address bar type:"control panel"
3. go to User Accounts...-> Add User account-> Create New "Admininstrator"
Account.
4. Shut down manually if you have to and reboot and access the new Admin
account
You will now have new account with all original programs still installed and
access to old files via either:
a. Internet exporer-> Address bar-> type: C:\users\ your old user account name
b Start button-> computer-> C:\Users\ you old user account name.

* You'll find here folders which will contain you old docs, downloads, etc
from you old account.

Thanks,
spawnocula