Window Explorer has stopped working "Chip Shapiro" <cshapiro6[ at ]cox.net> 10/17/2008 11:54:09 AM This is a new install of Vista Ultimate w/SP1. Intel DX48BT2 motherboard with a Q9450 processor, 4 gig DDR3 1066 Kingston RAM, 2 SATA II hard drives. This memory is on the QVL for Intel. Twice I have installed Vista Ultimate w/SP1 and each time when I try to open almost anything in the Control Panel, I get the message "Windows Explorer has stopped working", the desktop crashes and comes back. If I try 3 or 4 times I might get the application to open. This is the only time I see this. I do not get this message opening any installed application. This MB replaced an Asus Striker II NSE. The Asus board never did this, same disk used to install, same hardware in both machines. I had two 9600 GT KO video cards in both machines. I did SLI in the Asus MB, the Intel board doesn't do SLI, but I was going to hook up 3 monitors. I tried removing the Nvidia drivers, that didn't help. I removed one of the video cards, that didn't help. The programs installed are the same ones that were installed on the Asus MB. AVG Internet Security, MS Office 2007, Adobe CS3 suite. The problems showed up almost immediately before installing most of the additional software that has been installed. I tested the hard disk (for bad sectors) using a WD diag program, and tested the RAM. Both tested OK with the programs used. I have no other problems with the system, even things seems to run fine. I tried going to the MS Knowledge Base, but there wasn't much help listed for this problem. I do have 2 gig of Corsair DDR 3 1333Mhz RAM. I have not tried that, but I wouldn't think that RAM could cause something so specific and only this. I have even seen some blue screens, but I think those were SpySweeper related. Appreciate any ideas you might have. Thanks ...Chip..

Re: Window Explorer has stopped working mansrm81 <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 10/17/2008 12:06:07 PM click start orb then search cmd then right click and run as admin then type sfc/scannow -- mansrm81 If you think I helped you fix your problem give me some rep :D. Click on the scales. [image: http://www.vistax64.com/members/mansrm81-albums-asdf-picture192-untitled.jpg]

Re: Window Explorer has stopped working "Chip Shapiro" <cshapiro6[ at ]cox.net> 10/18/2008 11:58:13 AM Anything else up your sleeve? I ran the command as you suggested and it returned no errors. Thanks "mansrm81" <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:113e106b87b27643f9f293c537a70d4b[ at ]nntp-gateway.com... [Quoted Text] > > click start orb then search cmd then right click and run as admin then > type sfc/scannow > > > -- > mansrm81 > > If you think I helped you fix your problem give me some rep :D. Click on > the scales. [image: > http://www.vistax64.com/members/mansrm81-albums-asdf-picture192-untitled.jpg]