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Explorer crashes and restarts itself
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Posted by Aaron (1 messages posted)

After it crashes it restarts itself and lasts about seven seconds before it crashes again. I've observed it in Task Manager and it will increase in size rapidly until the process is about 27mb then it will crash again. Worst comes to worst I have no problem formatting the OS drive and reinstalling but I wish to avoid that if possible. I've done a virus scan and a repair install. Still no luck. Any ideas are welcome. Thanks.

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re: Explorer crashes and restarts itself
Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 4:51 am
Posted by Steve B (1600 messages posted)

Maybe it's a hardware problem.  I would run a memory diagnostic and a hard drive 
diagnostic.  

Looking at the event log might be helpful, but I don't know if you can do it with 
Explorer crashing all the time.

You could boot up in safe mode using command mode.  That doesn't use Explorer, but 
I'm not familiar with it and I don't know how to do much in command mode.






On Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 11:12 pm, Aaron wrote:
>After it crashes it restarts itself and lasts about seven seconds before it crashes
>again. I've observed it in Task Manager and it will increase in size rapidly until
>the process is about 27mb then it will crash again. Worst comes to worst I have no
>problem formatting the OS drive and reinstalling but I wish to avoid that if possible.
>I've done a virus scan and a repair install. Still no luck. Any ideas are welcome.
>Thanks.

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