Win7 "Windows Explorer has stopped working" Problem

[Skellz]

Okay so I'm having a problem where by after some time if I right click on desktop or try to open a file, folder and especially Windows updater an error will occur.

The error being "Windows Explorer Has Stopped Working".

Its only recently started to do this and I'm not sure if it was because of the Windows updates i got, i tried a system restore to 5 days ago and its still playing up. I dont even do anything and it will just randomly Pop up with the error, the only choice you get is to either Restart Windows Explorer Or Check for a Solution and restart the program. Which of course doesn't fix the problem and it just repeats until you restart the computer and then after some amount of time it will happen to you again.

I'm pretty sure its to do with the Windows Updater.

Anyone know how i can fix this? Because its becoming a real pain in the butt.

Help Highly appreciated, Thanks.

 

[Skellz]

I'm still running RC version7100 and it's now started happening for me as well.

But I'm having major problems since installing Firefox 3.5. Have you guys recently installed or updated firefox?

Yea i did actually, might uninstall it and see if that works.

For me its only just recently occurred and in the last week or so, in that time I've installed Windows updates, updated firefox & updated iTunes. I got rid of iTunes last night so ill see if that changes anything and ill also get rid of firefox to see if anything changes.

 

[Skellz]

Thanks Ysmalari, I'm trying the second method as i didn't have anything apart from the default key in the first method.

Is everyone with this problem running 64bit Win 7 Pro by any chance? just wondered if it was a problem with the Pro and not the others. This is Because my friend has 64bit Win 7 Home and has no problems what so ever.

 

[Skellz]

Yep, I'm on Pro as well...

Interestingly my PC only started doing it after the IE8 update that came through a few days ago, did you do the update too Skellz?

Well I did do a update through Windows Update center a few days ago that was to do with Internet Explorer (It was the Latest update so I naturally installed it lol). I'm pretty sure that after i done it the problem started occurring, so I'm guessing it could be that. I did try and go back to a restore point like i said but it never did anything to stop the problem.

 

[Skellz]

I also get this problem, am running W7 Ultimate and more then convinced it's a right-click context menu problem as it always occurs for me when right-clicking or simply clicking on a folder.

Yea, I get it very Often after I've been to update center/Folders & then I try right click on desktop or anything and it will come up with the error.

 

[Skellz]

Well I still haven't managed to fix this, every time it comes up it has the same Additional Info:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Explorer.EXE
Application Version: 6.1.7600.16404
Application Timestamp: 4a765771
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a5be02b
Exception Code: c000041d
Exception Offset: 000000000003202d
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: ad4f
Additional Information 2: ad4ff2910f4e212dac59bdc5b4a9838c
Additional Information 3: 2abd
Additional Information 4: 2abd8ab19cf237282e603bae0ac4594a


Its getting really annoying now... I hope Microsoft do something soon.

 

[Skellz]

anyone know if microsoft are aware of this problem or is there a fix at all yet?