Originally posted by GimieGimieGimie
The most common cause of explorer.exe crashing, is program applications in the background, could even be something as small as Winamp in some case's.

It's just one of those things you learn to live with, can't really do much about it, if the programs them selves are causing the problems but just find out the cause via "trial and error" and replace the programs with something else

My guess here, is that the crash diolog boxes have been completely turned off, probably due to XP-AntiSpy, which turns them off completely by default. And that because there are no longer any warnings of programs crashing, the screen just blinks, explorer.exe restarts and that's it. Where's in a normal case, a crash diolog box would pop-up in between.

I'm just playing about with straws here, but hey, it's worth exploring every possible option
Ok, how do I turn them back on? The main question here is: I'm pretty sure it's explorer.exe or one of it's components because using My Computer (which I hate ) has produced a crash-free period of 45+ hours. I could dink around for a long time using trial & error. Would I be better off just reinstalling XP? Would this overlay the bad components?

Thanks,
Max