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Explorer randomly crashing and restarting
Hi everyone, I'm new here and I've been having some problems with explorer crashing. I've searched all over the net including various forums and while I've found cases similar to mine none of them are quite like it. For instance, explorer will crash and ask for me to restart it randomly. It's not the right-click crash like some have had, I've checked my registry for a machine throttling string that caused some people crashes, but mine will just happen out of the blue, usually (but not always) when I have an explorer window open.
The crash itself doesn't effect much. All my programs will continue to run as normal so it's not a huge deal, it's just annoying as it will happen sporadically throughout the day. I've ran various spyware, malware, and virus scans all to no avail and I've even used a registry cleaner. I've also tried running sfc /scannow in the command prompt as an administrator. I've rebooted several times since and it still happens. I can't reproduce it, it just happens out of nowhere, but here's the error.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Explorer.EXE
Application Version: 6.1.7600.16450
Application Timestamp: 4aebab8d
Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a5bdfe0
Exception Code: c000041d
Exception Offset: 000000000000aa7d
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: e12d
Additional Information 2: e12d26ab2732657535745199cea41163
Additional Information 3: a32f
Additional Information 4: a32f232fedb61d8e7cc9d1df13a1cb23
If anyone can help it'd be greatly appreciated. I'm just not sure where to go from here and I'm trying my hardest not to have to do a fresh install as I really don't have the time for that right now :/
EDIT: I suppose it might help mentioning that all my windows updates are up-to-date and I don't have any driver issues (that I'm aware of).