Vista - FIX FOR "Windows Explorer has stopped worked" on Sony Vaio Laptops running Vista

OK I wrote about this long ago and have even had emails to people who
guessed my address and want a solution... so I just want to write the
solution here so people can get it on google more easily:

It you buy a brand spaking new Sony Laptop running Vista and set the
start menu to classic mode and leave the security settings on and try
to drag and drop an icon on the start menu to a different location you
are likely to see the error message "Windows Explorer has stopped
working". If you look in google you are likely to see thousands of
posts about it and start pulling out your hair. I solved it a long
time ago but bought another sony laptop at the weekend and its still
got the same problem.

The thread that explains how to fix it it is here:

http://club.vaio.sony.co.uk/clubvaio...d?thread=40902

The cause is in all the junk software that Sony ship with their vista
laptops something is causing this crash -although I have never been
able to figure out what. Blame Sony for shipping rubbish software,
blame the software world at large for building rubbish software, and
blame microsoft for a horrible product.

William

To help google:

Vista Windows Explorer has stopped working sony laptop crash
troubleshooting fix error patch for this bug in sony applications.
Clean install is the solution. start menu classic menu drag and drop
move icon move icon shortcut.

so does this apply to the thousands of other type's of computers that have
the same problem i myself have a compaq laptop that has suffered the same
problem but it wasn't caused in the way you described it was incompatible
software which reading through some of the posts in this forum is the primary
cause and as yet there is no solution other than clean install
--
martyb


"william.hooper@gmail.com" wrote:

> OK I wrote about this long ago and have even had emails to people who
> guessed my address and want a solution... so I just want to write the
> solution here so people can get it on google more easily:
>
> It you buy a brand spaking new Sony Laptop running Vista and set the
> start menu to classic mode and leave the security settings on and try
> to drag and drop an icon on the start menu to a different location you
> are likely to see the error message "Windows Explorer has stopped
> working". If you look in google you are likely to see thousands of
> posts about it and start pulling out your hair. I solved it a long
> time ago but bought another sony laptop at the weekend and its still
> got the same problem.
>
> The thread that explains how to fix it it is here:
>
> http://club.vaio.sony.co.uk/clubvaio...d?thread=40902
>
> The cause is in all the junk software that Sony ship with their vista
> laptops something is causing this crash -although I have never been
> able to figure out what. Blame Sony for shipping rubbish software,
> blame the software world at large for building rubbish software, and
> blame microsoft for a horrible product.
>
> William
>
> To help google:
>
> Vista Windows Explorer has stopped working sony laptop crash
> troubleshooting fix error patch for this bug in sony applications.
> Clean install is the solution. start menu classic menu drag and drop
> move icon move icon shortcut.
>
>