Here's what the event viewer tells me. I checked the Microsoft help link but it was of little help. This problem is bothersome but it isn't crashing my system. If you can help it would be great, but If not thanks to the above ppl. for trying. The "view services" advice was especially helpful.

I don't know why my shell would keep resetting, though. I have 512 megs of memory and my computer is overclocked, and I'm using windowblinds. Again the problem usually happens when I hit "file explorer" (and not all the time...just sometimes). I'm having wonderful system performance otherwise.

BTW: my desktop and taskbar icons sometimes get scrambled too. I don't know if this is related.


Details
Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 1002
Source: Winlogon
Version: 5.0
Component: Application Event Log
Symbolic Name: EVENT_SHELL_RESTARTED
Message: The shell stopped unexpectedly and was restarted.

Explanation
The shell was stopped and then restarted. By default, the shell is explorer.exe; however, you might have a customized shell.