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by yannick Mar 1, 2002 last reply May 31, 2002

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I am getting this error while navigating within Windows explorer:

The shell stopped unexpectedly and Explorer.Exe was restarted

I have dowloaded SP2 and all critical updates

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by timthetoolman Mar 2, 2002

Hi,

Have a read through the following forum. There are lots of people with this problem and lots of different solutions have helped people - too many to mention here...

http://www.tek-tips.com/gviewthread.cfm/lev2/67/lev3/70/pid/616/qid/175431

(remove spaces from the above URL)

Hopefully one of them will apply to you.

Cheers,
Tim.

by yannick May 31, 2002

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by sfhsgrad00 Mar 3, 2002

Usually if Windows Explorer goes bad, the solution is to reinstall Windows. This is because Windows Explorer is a core component that runs the system. You may want to reinstall your operating system. You will not lose any data on your system, butthis should correct your windows problem.