In Vista my Explorer has suddenly decided to break itself - every time I open it, after a second or two, I get a message 'windows explorer has stopped working', then 'windows explorer is restarting' and it shuts down.
It still works in safe mode though

Any ideas guys?

No doubt there will be a patch for it in a month or two

Oh the joys of new OS's

Have you installed or changed anything since its stopped working? Does it only happen in certain folders, or is it universally badgered?

Vista has a restore function on IIRC, so you could just restore back to when it was working ok. You wont lose any documents or anything.

David

[Edited on 16/5/07 by flak monkey]

It seems to be royally knackered as it won't read anything on any drive - yet all file functions in progs seem fine.
I restored to a previous restore point (I had installed Nero after that one) but still no joy.

I might try a reair installation and see what happens [puts fingers in ears]

Damn.

Gav is running Vista, he might have some suggestions.

You could try doing a selective startup and removing everything possible from the list to see if that helps things, if it does add them back in until you get the problem again.

Cheers

Alex

I should add
run - MSconfig, go to startup, untick the boxes and reboot

[Edited on 16/5/07 by ecosse]

Might be an explorer plugin from an application?

From w2k days I remember Adobe Photoshop Elements silently installed and activated a plugin so it it got used to render thumbnails, the speed of explorer halved and it crashed occasionally until I found and got rid of it.

Run ubuntu linux these days and my problems have reduced to almost nothing.

Sorted! It turned out to be a prog in the registry called eomd.exe which didn't exist anywhere in the system. I haven't a clue what it is and doing a google on it doesn't bring anything up.

Any ideas what it might be? I've deleted the line in the registry anyway and everything is fine now.

[Edited on 16-5-07 by RazMan]

eomd.exe dosen't bring any hits on Google which makes me think it might be a new nasty.

It might be an idea to keep an eye on registry changes with HijackThis.

Of course FireFox is the real answer or even better Firefox running on Linux

[Edited on 16/5/07 by britishtrident]

One result now up on google.
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread78389.html

Looking suspiciously like malware.

Running but 'not visible' sounds very bad, especially as it attaches itself to the internet.

Yep, that's the little blighter - no problems since I zapped it out of my registry though.