As I mentioned, I keep a clean system and I've not installed anything
recently or done anything to the users folders recently...and System Restore
really bogs down my system if I ever do run it... :(

I booted in safe mode and it does work, so something it going on with the
main boot.
"Ronnie Vernon MVP" <rv@invalid.org> wrote in message
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> 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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