Help! Explorer keeps crashing on me! (Not internet explorer)

[Deerthug]

For the last two weeks explorer on my Windows 7 PC has been crashing. It started infrequently and now every time I try to open "my computer" or access a document or photograph, it quits working and restarts. I've so had it with this Dell laptop.

 

Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated.

[Gthphtm]

Heard there is a virus going around,once it gets in they ask you to pay to get rid of it.Either way take it to someone that knows how to save the info you want and let them wipe the hard drive clean and re install every thing.

[Deerthug]

I back everything up so I'm not concerned about losing anything. I'm just so done with PC's. I'm already looking at the iMacs for my next computer. I just need this one to last a little while longer.

[Elmo]

PCs are the top dogs so every hacker is gunning for them but Macs security is non-existent.  When a staff with a Mac gets fired, we bypass their password security with a press of a button.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Go into your event viewer, look in the application and system logs and get the event Id and error code from the explorer error, then google it. If you are lucky, youll find a fix.

[fasteddie]

I found Explorer to be too slow and installed Mozilla FireFox . Works like a charm .

[Deerthug]

I use Mozilla. It's explorer that runs windows 7 that crashes. I have no problem accessing the internet.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Did you find the error in the logs?

[WNYBuckHunter]

I found Explorer to be too slow and installed Mozilla FireFox . Works like a charm .

 

Thats Internet Explorer, he is talking about Windows Explorer, which runs just about everything in Windows.

[fasteddie]

Thats Internet Explorer, he is talking about Windows Explorer, which runs just about everything in Windows.

 

That's what I get for not being a computer Nerd .......    Maybe I should get that book ...Computers for Dummies and learn something . I know just enough to get out of trouble .

 

Deerthug , I hope you get the problem fixed !

 

[WNYBuckHunter]

LMAO eddie

[Fantail]

Deerthug; http://www.sevenforums.com

 

Click on the search (far right text menu) "explorer crash" lots of results.

[Deerthug]

Deerthug; http://www.sevenforums.com

 

Click on the search (far right text menu) "explorer crash" lots of results.

Thanks. I will look at that site.

 

That's what I get for not being a computer Nerd .......    Maybe I should get that book ...Computers for Dummies and learn something . I know just enough to get out of trouble .

 

Deerthug , I hope you get the problem fixed !

 

Thanks Eddie! Good luck with the book! Lol!

 

Did you find the error in the logs?

So far it has not crashed yet this morning. But I will check the logs and do the google search like you suggested.

[WNYBuckHunter]

If you need help figuring it out, send me the info. I have a few sources I can check.

[PWGUNNY]

WHenever I run into a software issue, I simply unwind my comuter to an earlier date.  Go to system restore, choose a date that precedes your intitial problem and let the system reboot to those earlier settings.  It works 95% of the time.

[Deerthug]

If you need help figuring it out, send me the info. I have a few sources I can check.

 

Thanks! I will take you up on that offer.

[tuckersdaddy]

you said you were running dell... theres your problem. i have 3 (lap top, net book and desk top) everything was great until the warranty ran out. this happened on all 3, the day after the warranty expired, i would get a call from dell service to extend the warranty, i declined, with in 2 hours i began to have internet issues (explorer) then operating system errors. just dumb luck? yea ok. i took all 3 units to a local computer hack, he purged them of all dell linked software, reloaded explorer on the desk top, chrome on the laptop and net book, and its been over a year now trouble free. he said this is the number 1 problem he sees with dell computers. just my 2cents worth.