why does explorer keep crashing when I am browsing folders?

Question

I have windows xp and when I am browsing a couple of my folders explorer crashes.. have an up-to-date virus checker.. no adware/spyware.. and plenty of RAM.

not internet explorer.. explorer, the directory systems on windows.
and I have changed virus checking programs in case that was the issue

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WHY ARE YOU ALL OBSESSED WITH THE INTERNET... THIS QUESTION IS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET

Answer 1

This appears to be a fairly widespread XP issue with no standard fix. If you search forums you will find that there are lots of people with this issue, and no workable fix. (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=xp+explorer+crash&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)

There are a couple of things you could try

Try going to Control Panel / System
Select the Advanced tab and hit Settings under the Performance section.
Select Adjust for best performance.
Then Okay out of it.
Then do a Microsoft Update to make sure all of the recent security updates are installed.

or you could open the box up, completely remove all the bits, get rid of as much dust as you can and then put it back together again... :-)

Oh, also check the RAM... If you've got more than 1 stick in there it could be that one of them is bad.
Try removing them both and then adding them to slot 1 (should be labelled on the mother board) 1 at a time and booting the PC.
It will give a horrible beeping noise if the RAM is bad.

Anyway pick me for best answer cause all the other answers are crappy and seem to be obessed with IE!

Answer 2

in administration panel lower than administrative equipment open the shape viewer. in case you have not done this formerly there'll likely be 1000's of things, do not difficulty about it. go with the device and applications logs and sparkling them. Then once you've yet another crash, flow decrease back and observe what the shape identity is. the outline isn't a lot help yet you may do a web seek for utilizing the shape identity for clues. There are far to many conceivable motives without further information. imagine decrease back to even as it first began happening and if it replaced into after some type of replace or replace. in case you replaced the image card that is conceivable you've an direct X difficulty. Press commence, run, kind "dxdiag" without the quote marks and enter. that is the diagnostic for direct X, it may have a clue. attempt to delivers further information pertaining to to complications, you receives more effective help. a good number of people on the following purely wager and reason extra damage than solid, continually decrease back up or set a restore aspect formerly making any significant adjustments only for protection.

Answer 3

The anti-virus could be part of the problem. I don't use it. If it's real bad then reformatt otherwise stop all progs from starting at startup and see how it goes.

Lol, the first time I got a virus I had first run a viris check on the file and it said all was ok. Lol, then I opened the file and the 'virus checker' said: 'you have a virus'. Dumb program. 50% of virii morph and so no 'virus checker' can spot them.

Answer 4

which explorer you are using?
if you installed the microsoft internet explorer 7 this could be the problem it makes the explore crash even though it is not opened i think it is a bug in microsoft and they are working on it.

Answer 5

Personally I think that IE isn't very good, IE7 seems a little better you could try updating to that or switching to FireFox which I have NEVER had a problem with.