Vista - After SP2 Explorer keeps crashing - HELP

ok i have too many of these. After i installed Vista SP2, i keep getting explorer crashes. It's sporadic. I open my computer, boom, it hangs and then i need to hit reset. It's happening alot. Any idea how to fix this. Thank you.

Update - i uninstalled SP@ and stopped all taskbar operations including NOD32. Then i re-installed it, so far so good.

update again. it's back. I open explorer to move a file, bang it hangs them i need to resart explorer, this sucks. Any help please.

any help please

here is what i see, and i get alot of these, anyone out there to help please.


Product
Windows Explorer

Problem
Stopped responding and was closed

Date
6/5/2009 5:31 PM

Status
Report Sent

Description
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: Explorer.EXE
Application Version: 6.0.6002.18005
Application Timestamp: 49e02a1e
Hang Signature: d0cd
Hang Type: 513
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Hang Signature 1: 974cdfa02f0b120dd256b63a3ee6ffad
Additional Hang Signature 2: 216e
Additional Hang Signature 3: e142db776713a5c148c902c27f39ecbb
Additional Hang Signature 4: 08ab
Additional Hang Signature 5: 35702752e6870ac7eb2466cd9b93e0b3
Additional Hang Signature 6: 49c0
Additional Hang Signature 7: 0e3750827fd9919cd5905de36b9a1ad9

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 553319838

"mn072065" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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I ran into this problem. It says Windows Explorer has stopped working,
shuts down and then it restarts Windows Explorer.

I found Broadcom's WIDCOMM 6.1 driver/software causes problems with
Explorer, so I uninstalled it. I still have some Bluetooth service with the
Kensington Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, but not as extensive as with the WIDCOMM
software.

Corrupted media files will also cause Windows Explorer to crap out randomly.
After working fine for mins after boot, then it would all of a sudden stop
working everytime I opened My Computer. I downloaded ShellExView and
disabled Video Thumbnail Extractor. I eventually found the corrupted the
video file. I couldn't open and play it even though I had all kinds of
codecs installed and it used to open fine. I deleted it and turned Video
Thumbnail Extractor back on. This is just to point out that instead of
generating an error on what file caused the problem, Windows Explorer will
opt to stop working. So the problem could be something else not listed.

Thanks I dont have WINDCOMM, you mention ShellExView. where can i get that and is that easy to use? I appreciate the help.

ok i tried ShellExView, disabling one by one, but is there a better solution? I have the right click syndrome as i read thru searches. Is my only option to reformat? Also why does this happen? Thanks anyone.

After installing some windows updates, I was having issues as well. The error is most notable when attempting to move files in windows explorer (right click, and windows explorer crashes). The error showed iexplorer as the culprit, but upon more investigation, it turned out to be WMP.

Fix for me was to download shellmenuview from ShellMenuView - Disable/enable context menu items of Explorer

Run the program. Look for greyed out items, highlight them, then right click and select "enable selected."

Then try to replicate your problem to see if it is fixed.

Thank you i did what you explained above, all greyed out items i enabled, rebooted, everything looked fine. Then it just happened, i opened explorer and double clicked on a folder, BOOM, it crashes, i need to close with the x on the right upper corner, then i restart. This is annoying, planning on reformatting, i use acronis image file, but it sucks that i have an image from 4/25/2009 date, and i killed the first image that just had clean install and updates. I dont want to reformat, hope for other suggestions and simple ones since i'm a rookie. Everything shows disbled in shellmenu.