Brian

You need to think about what was changed recently on the system. Have you
tried any customizations to the users folders? Have you used a registry
cleaner or other third party utility?

You might want to try System Restore to go back to a time before you saw
this problem.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"msnews.microsoft.com" <joe@joe.com> wrote in message
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> Help!
>
> I am on Vista Ultimate and I keep a very clean machine. However, I can no
> loger view my documents...when I go to Start, Documents, I get:
>
> "Windows Explorer has stopped working." It will try to find a "solution"
> and then close the explorer window. I can't view Documents at all...I've
> tried right clicking on the Start Button and choosing explore and going
> that way but even when I go from C drive to Documents, it happens
> again...I opened up a command prompt and went into Documents and they are
> all there and safe but I cannot access them by going into the directory
> itself via Windows Explorer. Same goes for using Word...if I open Word and
> try to go to the directory, "Windows Explorer" will stop working. I am in
> urgent need of my documents directory.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
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