WTF is up with all these Windows Explorer crashes?

I agree and I'm not ready to blame it on Windows 7 yet. Just strange that its just this RTM build (and my installed software is the same)

Of note, my laptop doesn't seem to have these problems. Its got most of the same software installed, but its 32-bit.

i got windows explorer crashes as well. It happens everytime when i navigate around the control panel. It is really weird.

Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bc60d
Faulting module name: DUI70.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bda05
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0003d86a
Faulting process id: 0x1098
Faulting application start time: 0x01ca11999a9558e1
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\DUI70.dll
Report Id: 439016c4-7d8d-11de-abe0-000129a50609

Any idea what is causing this?

No solution here, but getting the same symptoms. Just began today on my laptop. Anytime i right click something it takes anywhere from 3-10 minutes to pull up the context menu. I was reading this thread on my desktop while waiting for the menu to come up and had a look - No programs i've recently installed have added an icon in the main context menu or in "Send To" submenu. Thought Dataman47 was onto something - it is exactly that type of behavior.

Reading through the thread I don't seem to have much as far as similar software goes, aside from also using 7 RTM. I have all updates and can't say I installed any just before this started happening.

Running sfc /scannow and going to have a look at the eventlogs to see what we can figure out.

I have an interesting variation on this problem.

Installed the RTM version of Home Premium over XP (which of course meant a clean install - used to that, I used to install operatings systems for fun) and now every time I click on a document icon in Explorer such as a .pdf or .txt or .mp3, etc. explorer crashes and will not open the application that would read the file.

If I open the application and open the file from the application, everything works.

It's frustrating to say the least.

All this on an Acer 9410 laptop with the vista drivers.

Tom

I had same problem, random Explorer crashes and then everytime I right clicked it would crash again.

I think I read somewherre that it was to do with the Customer Experience Program. I turned this setting off and the crashes went away. Worth a try?

Some people say this is done through a registry edit but this method is far safer. Open Action Center > Change Action Center Settings and under Related Settings choose Customer Experience Improvement Program Settings. Set it to Off.

xcluded said:

i got windows explorer crashes as well. It happens everytime when i navigate around the control panel. It is really weird.

Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bc60d
Faulting module name: DUI70.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bda05
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0003d86a
Faulting process id: 0x1098
Faulting application start time: 0x01ca11999a9558e1
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\DUI70.dll
Report Id: 439016c4-7d8d-11de-abe0-000129a50609

Any idea what is causing this?

THis is most likely caused by a control panel item for a piece of hardware you installed that is not exact;ly Windows 7 compliant

I've run into the same issue, was fixed by uninstalling the hardware.

It's a shame that explorer crashes though, in this day an age, just because a control panel hands you back a null string when you ask for it is no reason to roll over dead.

As for the others it could be an installed context item issue or a file type association that causes a crash or large delay when certain types of files exist in a folder you are exploring too.

And BTW this is nothing new to 7 in general (though it may seem thatway for specific users). These problems all started with XP SP3 and persisted through Vista. Bad control panels never USED to crash exploerer, having written enough of them and had my fair share of bugs during development, I never used to crash explorer, but now... The Explorer team has got some s'plainin' to do.

i have problems with crashing when i have outlook open for an extended period of time. I have reinstalled it serveral times and from different cd's still have a problem.