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    Explorer.exe Crashes Often

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by reviewthis, Aug 19, 2011.

  1. reviewthis

    reviewthis Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello all,

    Lately the explorer.exe process has been crashing. It restarts right away and the taskbar disappears for a second but quickly comes back. Is there a program I can run in the background that constantly monitors my processes and determines what is causing explorer.exe to crash?

    Here is my startup list, might be something in there:
    http://i.imgur.com/bRdMF.png

    Thank you very much!
     
    reviewthis, Aug 19, 2011
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Did you install hardware or software around the time this happened? Try viewing your Event Log and see what the source is.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Aug 20, 2011
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    When does this happen?
     
    chewyeong90, Aug 20, 2011
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    I have installed a ton of software lately. But oddly enough, it hasn't crashed in a few days. Weird how these things kind of sort themselves out. I will let you know if it continues, I will give it a couple more days!
     
    reviewthis, Aug 21, 2011
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