Vista - Explorer crashing on 2nd partition...

Hello there... I have I laptop in which I have vista installed on a HDD that is in three partitions... One is strickly for the OS and programs, the second is for all audio, videos, live cd downloads, etc., and the third is the recovery partition (my vista is an OEM installation) I have a problem that arises every once in awhile which involves windows explorer crashing when I access the partition with all my audio etc on it... it does it every once and awhile and I have traced the problem back to the windows temp folder... apparently something happens and it makes explorer go crazy untell i delete everything in the temp folder (via ccleaner)

my question is what could be causing this to happen and if anyone else has/had this problem and has found a more permenant solution then clearing the temp folder everytime it happens.

aj

go into event viewer by typing that in search. go to the windows log, application tab and look for errors (they have a red "X" in the lefy column) find out which is the most comman and let us know the event ID and source

thanks
ken

Lastest time it crashed....

Fault bucket 5194352, type 4
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: None
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: explorer.exe
P2: 6.0.6002.18005
P3: 49e02a1e
P4: ntdll.dll
P5: 6.0.6002.18005
P6: 49e0421d
P7: c0000005
P8: 0000000000048d50
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
C:\Users\Alberto\AppData\Local\Temp\WERDC16.tmp.version.txt

These files may be available here:
C:\Users\Alberto\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\Report1c52f5dc


this is what commonly comes up in windows problem reports and solutions

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Explorer.EXE
Application Version: 6.0.6002.18005
Application Timestamp: 49e02a1e
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6002.18005
Fault Module Timestamp: 49e0421d
Exception Code: c015000f
Exception Offset: 0000000000086359
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: e6be
Additional Information 2: 67f1b658acdbd9306bff030957c77dcd
Additional Information 3: 83bf
Additional Information 4: fa77acee6f3cf17fb3cd42fbc2c27891

AJ

app crashes are often caused by DEP misconfiguration. dep, or data execution prevention is located in control panel>system cpanel>advanced settings>performance settings>dep and should be ON for all programs.

let us know if it is

thanks

ken

Hmm it was only on for windows programs etc. though that's the way it came.

Why does that look so familiar, Ken. LOL. History repeating itself?

Seems to be a recurring nightmare. I wonder why?

DEP - Enable or Disable