Well I narrowed down the explorer crashes.

[reddice]

I may have boasted before about how I have been getting explorer crashes but now I have narrowed it down to "Windows Explorer" crashing only. When I have it opened for a while and do things in it when I go to close it I get the error and any windows I have opened close what I don't understand is why does it seem to crash explorer.exe 50% of the time I go to close "Windows Explorer" It does not bring down the entire operating system but it is very annoying and now it seems like Netscape using as my alternative browser because Internet Explorer keeps freezing on certain sites and need to use netscape to view them I now need a alternative program to use instead of "Windows Explorer" because 50% of the time when I go to close it it crashes. I know that there are no solutions to this problem what I am now looking for is a alternative windows explorer program.

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For your geeks out there here is the criptic code I get in event viewer.

Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2800.1221, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x1000a430.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Bytes:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 65 78 70 ure exp
0018: 6c 6f 72 65 72 2e 65 78 lorer.ex
0020: 65 20 36 2e 30 2e 32 38 e 6.0.28
0028: 30 30 2e 31 32 32 31 20 00.1221
0030: 69 6e 20 75 6e 6b 6e 6f in unkno
0038: 77 6e 20 30 2e 30 2e 30 wn 0.0.0
0040: 2e 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66 .0 at of
0048: 66 73 65 74 20 31 30 30 fset 100

Words:
0000: 6c707041 74616369 206e6f69 6c696146
0010: 20657275 70786520 65726f6c 78652e72
0020: 2e362065 38322e30 312e3030 20313232
0030: 75206e69 6f6e6b6e 30206e77 302e302e
0040: 6120302e 666f2074 74657366 30303120
0050: 33346130 0a0d30

The shell stopped unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
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[Jubal]

Well to start with that version number you listed is for Internet Explorer and not Windows Explorer. As for what the error message is, I haven't got a clue. Guess what I would do is try to get another copy of IE and try to reinstall it.

[Train]

Run the IE repair tool. But, if it does not fix the error then download and overinstall it.

How to Determine Which Version of Internet Explorer Is Installed

6.00.2462.0000 Internet Explorer 6 Public Preview (Beta)
6.00.2479.0006 Internet Explorer 6 Public Preview (Beta) Refresh
6.00.2600.0000 Internet Explorer 6 (Windows XP)
6.00.2800.1106 Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (Windows XP SP1)
6.00.3663.0000 Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 RC1
6.00.3718.0000 Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Server 2003 RC2
6.00.3790.0000 Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Server 2003 (released)


Hmm, you have a Branded IE from your Version number.

[reddice]

Internet Explorer is not crashing it is Windows Explorer when I close it.

[Jubal]

Maybe IE is causing Windows Explorer to crash.

[carn]

Well it maybe spyware, Get Spybot Search & Destroy and see if finds anything also it maybe a program you downloaded which has buggy windows explorer integration which is causing it to crash, try uninstalling any program that has added to the windows explorer context menu.