Windows 7 Explorer Frequently Crashes - Error 0xc0000374

Anonymous
2009-11-05T22:22:29+00:00

original title: Windows 7 Explorer Frequently Crashes!!! **** ... no way!!! yep. It usually happens when my computer is left on overnight or after a few hours of some serious php scripting with but of course MS Expression Web 3. lmfao. It usually results in not being able to rename something ... right click ... delete ... etc. Its one of these not multiples ... that causes a explorer crash and in order to fix this annoying undocumented feature ... i MUST REBOOT! Do you know how annoying this is when your right in the middle of editing some plain text documents!!!!! ... the initial installation took about 20-30min to actually start up and took an excessively long long time to install to begin with.

WTF Microsoft ... I thought Win7 wasnt going to have any of the previous OS issues! Linux FTW!

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MSI 9800GT - Video Card - Not OC

Gigabyte S Series Motherboard

AMD 4000+ AM2 64x2 Processor - Copper Cooling Block not OC

2x1GB Ram ( Single Channel )

500GB SATA Seagate Barricuda HDD - Brand NEW

Razer DeathAdder USB Mouse

D-Link Wireless N Card

Standard Keyboard (PS2 Connector)

HP DVD Burner ( ide )

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-06-29T10:53:35+00:00

    I have the same problem except in my case it happens when I click on the START button. Explorer.exe crashes with the same error and log information. It usally happens after I havn't used the START button for awhile. It happens at least once, sometimes 3 or 4 times in a row.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-06-07T11:23:51+00:00

    TaskBar Shuffle is only needed in Xp and Vista. Windows 7 let you drag and drop the Taskbar entries.

    For all other people with explorer crashes,

    please download this reg file from my SkyDrive:

    http://cid-128fc518635be2dc.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/MS%20Foren/Registry/WER%5E\_Explorer.reg

    and make a double click on the file to import it.

    When the explorer crashes, Windows Error Reporting Service (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787181%28VS.85%29.aspx) creates admp file under C:\Localdumps .

    Please upload the file to your public Skydrive folder and post the link here. I take at the dump, maybe I can see the cause.

    André

    "A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-06-07T09:35:31+00:00

    I found my problem! I was using a program called: Taskbar Shuffle. It is 32bit.

    I uninstalled it and the crashes went away. I have since downloaded and installed the 64bit version and still zero crashes.

    I know many here have uninstalled programs and even reinstalled the operating system. The clue (raging:), could be a rogue 32bit app.

    Good Luck!

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  5. Anonymous
    2010-03-06T20:50:27+00:00

    Same here, constant crashing, Windows 7 is unusable.  I have an AMD Atholon 64 bit running Windows 7 64 bit.  It's unbearable and I did nothing different from when I started the computer.  HEEEAAAALLLLLPPPP!!!

    Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16450, time stamp: 0x4aebab8d

    Faulting module name: comctl32.dll, version: 6.10.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bde67

    Exception code: 0xc000041d

    Fault offset: 0x00000000000fdad7

    Faulting process id: 0xfe4

    Faulting application start time: 0x01cabd6e7684f47c

    Faulting application path: C:\Windows\explorer.exe

    Faulting module path: C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7600.16385_none_fa645303170382f6\comctl32.dll

    Report Id: c22ff4bc-2961-11df-9f4f-001bfcd3ccc0

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