Windows Explorer is shutting down

[Sathyaish]

For the last couple of months, I've been having this problem on my
Windows Vista Home Edition laptop. Every few minutes, explorer.exe
will give up with a dialog saying "Windows Explorer is shutting down."
followed by an immediate "Windows Explorer is restarting."

In the process, any explorer windows, and processes (such as copy/
paste, etc.) will immediately be killed leaving whatever state the
memory is in as is, meaning more CPU is being wasted.

I can't tell you what problem this has been causing me. I have
specially found this annoying when writing/copying files from the hard
drive to removable media such as CDs, DVDs and USB drives.

Please help. My overall experience with Vista has been CRAP"£$%"$%.
There's a buttload of problems I can't reckon in a single thread and
at the moment I am not bothered about anything else but this. I am in
the middle of writing some code and this thing has been causing me to
pop out of the zone every few minutes.

Please help.

 

[Mimi]

I have been having the same problem and it is getting more and more frequent.
Microsoft sends a problem resolution download information page with supposed
fixes. I have tried both of them and they each say that they do not work
with my system.
I just do not know what to do at this point.

 

[Les]

Same problem here.

I don't even get the resolution download information page! Just continues to
send fault - never anything in return.

 

[Malke]

For the last couple of months, I've been having this problem on my
Windows Vista Home Edition laptop. Every few minutes, explorer.exe
will give up with a dialog saying "Windows Explorer is shutting down."
followed by an immediate "Windows Explorer is restarting."

In the process, any explorer windows, and processes (such as copy/
paste, etc.) will immediately be killed leaving whatever state the
memory is in as is, meaning more CPU is being wasted.

I can't tell you what problem this has been causing me. I have
specially found this annoying when writing/copying files from the hard
drive to removable media such as CDs, DVDs and USB drives.

The problem is that we can't really give you focused troubleshooting
because you waited so long and the only information we have from you is
a vague "it isn't working". Usually when things go wrong you want to
immediately ask yourself The First Question Of Troubleshooting: what
changed between the time things worked and the time they didn't? Since
it has been months, you can't really answer that.

So start trying to narrow this down by:

1. Look in Event Viewer to see if there are any clues. Start Orb>Search
box>type: eventvwr.msc [enter].

2. To see if Vista itself detects a problem:

Control Panel
System and Maintenance
Performance information and tools
Advanced tools in left pane

Start > All Programs > Maintenance > Problem Reports and Solutions >
View Problem History

3. If the above doesn't give you a clear clue as to what is failing (a
particular driver, perhaps) then do clean-boot troubleshooting to see if
something running in the background is the culprit.

How to perform a clean boot in Vista and XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796

After you've done all that, post back with results if you don't
understand something you've seen. If you post back, include more
information about your computer - hardware specs, what laptop you have,
did you install Vista yourself (upgrade from XP?), did it come
preinstalled, etc.


Malke