bpj

I found a solution on another forum (I forget where exactly) that works for my particular version of this problem. I have adobe photoshop installed and by default it is setup to generate automatic previews of images. This apparently conflicts with explorer.exe trying to do the same thing and causes some folders (with images in them) to crash. I just needed to switch off the automatic photoshop previews: Right click on a photoshop image (one of the samples in the photoshop directories will do). You should then be able to find a check box to switch off automatic previews. Since doing this explorer.exe hasn't crashed once. BPJ

I have the same problem... explorer.exe crashes and restarts when I open certain folders. So far its been folders containing mp3 files, album art and ini files - it doesn't crash when I open files containing just mp3 files though...? I have XP with SP2. The details of the error message say a different file caused the restart almost every time - sometimes ntdll.dll, sometimes msvcrt.dll, sometimes shell32.dll, ole32.dll .... Was a solution found to this problem?