Hi,

Just a thought, but you mention that you "keep a clean system". Does this
include the use of a registry cleaner? If so, did you run one shortly before
this problem started? And does it have an undo feature?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
[url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
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My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]

"msnews.microsoft.com" <joe@joe.com> wrote in message
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> 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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