You might see if downloading and merging the library-ms option in the tutorial below may be able to help by it restoring the default associations and registry entries for libraries.
Brink thanks for the response, I ran the library-ms but I am still getting the same problem.
Even right clicking on the top level libraries ICON generates a Explorer has stopped working........then Explorer is restarting.????????????????
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Windows Explorer Crashes when attempting to create a new libraries problems?