explorer crashing and restarting continously

I went to Las Vegas for a week and i come back to find my computer all messed up. My windows explorer keeps finding an error and starts opening the window that says windows searching for a problem. It will open these windows nonstop until i turn the computer off and i am unable to do anything. I have tried running safe mode and the only thing that changes is that it constantly restarts explorer rather than crashes. I am at a loss and i dont know what to do. I can get to the cmd prompt in safe mode if i work fast enough but thats about it. Could anyone help me with this problem?

hey, i've been having the same issues. I just upgraded to windows seven in an effort to fix the issues with my windows explorer, among other things. I checked the reliability report and I got this:
Description
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.
Faulting Application Path: C:\Windows\explorer.exe

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: AppHangXProcB1
Application Name: explorer.exe
Application Version: 6.1.7600.16404
Application Timestamp: 4a765076
Hang Signature: 1e17
Hang Type: 128
Waiting on Application Name: svchost.exe:AudioClientRpc
Waiting on Application Version: 0.0.0.0
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Hang Signature 1: 1e1773c5ae376bc3647f21b9072f62bc
Additional Hang Signature 2: ef4c
Additional Hang Signature 3: ef4c22c1eaf328ca45fbe7d79e6c4431
Additional Hang Signature 4: 1e17
Additional Hang Signature 5: 1e1773c5ae376bc3647f21b9072f62bc
Additional Hang Signature 6: ef4c
Additional Hang Signature 7: ef4c22c1eaf328ca45fbe7d79e6c4431

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 696285616

Not sure what to do about it. But I think my audio volume wheel on the side of my computer has something to do with it. Please help me. I'm really getting sick of this.

Update your BIOS, chipset and other drivers, and remove any hardware that doesn't have Windows 7 drivers.

The BIOS has the job of booting the OS, holding info on your hardware and if it works and providing access to other features like virtualization. It should be updated.

I downloaded the BIOS update. but it's not running/updating. ?

What pc model do you have and what BIOS file did you get? Download the stunning HWInfo tool to find out.

well, got the bios downloaded and installed/updated. Been a week now and no issues. Hopefully I got it fixed this time. Thanks for the Info guys. Major help. :)