cheshiresport Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 Whenever i open my "My Downloads" file to browse the contents after a few seconds i get the message Windows explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close.What could be causing this?Please help as its really doing my head in, have done spyware checks and cleared anything found but its still doing it.]Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheshiresport Posted September 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 Anybody please?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheshiresport Posted September 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Surely someone can help me??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Have a look here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheshiresport Posted September 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Ive done a google search and nothing ive read has really helped. Was hoping someone on here may be able to help me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 HiI had this exact problem a few weeks ago, it turned out to be a corrupt file i had downloaded from te net, the way i solved it was to browse to the folder from a different user profile, this allowed me to look at the files with out crashing so much, then it is a matter of trying to find out what file it is and then deleteing it, it will probably be one of the last files you have downloaded before all this started to happen.Good luckTony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Did you come across THIS in your search? :) Is it relevant to your problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Most likely a corrupt file, or corrupt sector on your drive. Before proceeding, you should make a complete backup of your system, and then run a surface scan on your disk.start > run > chkdsk /r Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickster Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 I have been getting the same message several times a week, invariably when I have 1 or more windows explorer windows open. Don't know the cause or have fixed it yet. Most time windows explorer is open, it does not occur. It does about 20% of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 MicroSoft lists various Causes, Symptoms and Resolutions for your problem HERE.Edit: This is for Windows XP. What is your Operating system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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