Originally posted by Dehcbad25
Could you tell us your motherboard maker and model?.
When I said re-install I wasn't meaning to format first and make a clean install. I was meaning to reinstall over the old instalation, that way XP takes all your seetings back. This might fix the problem or not, but here is the good part. IF it fixes the problem Bravo!! and you know something was wrong with the XP instalation. If it didn't work, know for sure you can blame a program. Since you have problems in the explorer view, and not in my PC view, I would try a reinstall. After all it takes an hour, where you need only 10 minutes of assistance, so you can do other stuff. It is much better than doing a system restore (I think)
I tend to agree with you on that type of reinstall. Since the system has been up and running for over 72 hours with no resets (avoiding use of explorer.exe) I think that's what I'll do, since it should be harmless. I did do an optimization last night also, so this would be a good time to try it. The mombo is an Amptron K7-800LMR using an AMD 751 chipset.

I'll try the reinstall and let you know what happens.