Vista - Windows Explorer Stopped Working, Internet Explorer Stopped Working, what DOES work?

I checked my post on Technet the other day and they said they would forward the information on.

I will also post a link to this forum on there. Thank you!

I would call your phone company and have them "check" your phoneline, then download and install the Mozilla Firefox Browser to see if that helps, it did me. If it doesn't you can always remove the browser..............
Art

try system restore

Look into this.....
I had a similar problem in a fresh install of Vista Ultimate- everytime I
tried to do anything in the GUI (Explorer), I got an error, "Windows Explorer
has stopped working"... looking for solutions, "Windows Explorer is
restarting..." It seemed that there was no end in sight. Most search
engine hits point to problems with shell extensions. This is not the case,
but instead a bug in Vista where it cannot recover is a temporary cache
database file is corrupted. Pretty sad, I think. Nonetheless, I figured out
a solution.

Check the event viewer to see what is causing the error. Open the Task
Manager (CNTRL ALT DEL, start Task Manager), then from the Task Manager
program, select File-Run from the menu. Type MSCONFIG. You may have to try
these steps several times as the crashing Explorer will probably get in the
way. In my case, Explorer crashes mostly did not affect secondary apps (i.e.
Task Manager and Msconfig). In Msconfig, select the Tools tab and select
Event Viewer and click Launch. In Event Viewer, open up Applications to see
what errors you are getting.

If "C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\***.db" is
causing the problem, you need to delete the *.db file in that directory. But
because Explorer is crashing, you obviously can't do this from a window. Go
back to Task Manager and type, "runas /user:[username that has administrative
rights] cmd"

You will be asked for you password. Enter it. Now browse to the directory
with the *.db files that are causing problems and delete them. They are
temporary thumbnail caches. One or more are are probably corrupt. As soon
as you delete these files, Vista should run just fine.
ART

He already fixed the problem.

Ive been running Vista Home Basic on my laptop for almost a year with very few problems untill now, this Internet Explorer restarting and Windows Explorer restarting problem began about 2 weeks ago I am wondering if a Windows Update caused it.

What do you do when you run the scannow command and get a message saying that a file could not be fixed?

Well, since I used my friend's copy (and not Technet's version) to install x64 I haven't had too many problems. I don't use IE, however, so I don't know if that may still have problems.

...can't wait for Fallout 3...
Cheers!

I don't have that program and I am getting the same error.