I'm having the exact same problem as you mate.
Same system as well, Dell Inspiron, Core Duo and 2GB RAM.
It always just happens at random times and I always end up having to close
and reopen explorer through the Task Manager.
Unfortunately though I've no idea what's causing it or how to fix it either.
But ur not alone with this.
Thought I'd just bump the thread in hopes for someone with a solution.
Mitch
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"Meir" wrote:
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> I have Vista Premuim, on a Dell Desktop intel core 2 duo 2gigs ram
>
> Recently the taskbar freezes, can only switch windows with alt tab, special
> keyboard functions dont work.
>
> The only solution is that sometimes if i right click the taskbar, a pop
> shows up asking me that Windows Explorer is not working, and that i can ask
> to restart it or close it. If i click Restart Windows Explorer, it takes a
> few seconds and it fixes it.
>
> I am going crazy here, and i dont want to just reinstall vista, and have
> this come up again. are other people having this problem?
>
> Please Please help ,e