My issue resolved itself at some point, probably after an automatic update.
Windows 8 Explorer.exe keeps crashing and restarting
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Hi
I upgraded my windows 7 ultimate to windows 8 pro couple of weeks before when windows released. After the upgrade the explorer.exe getting restarted every 1 minute. I thought the upgrade was not fine and did a clean install afterwards.. Everything was fine for two weeks and then today
the same problem happened
The explorer is getting restarted and it is no annoying that i cannot use my thinkpad
Please find the error log in found in event viewer
Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 6.2.9200.16384, time stamp: 0x50107dbc
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.2.9200.16420, time stamp: 0x505ab405
Exception code: 0xc000071f
Fault offset: 0x000000000011808f
Faulting process ID: 0xf00
Faulting application start time: 0x01cdbbec7ad21138
Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report ID: ddf2f77e-27df-11e2-be75-685d432e670f
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
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Anonymous
2013-02-27T02:18:58+00:00 -
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2013-02-26T08:47:17+00:00 Hi,
To avoid confusion, we would suggest you to create a thread of your own.
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Anonymous
2013-02-23T12:25:58+00:00 I'm having the same issue:
Faulting application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 6.2.9200.16433, time stamp: 0x50763312
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000007f8f078000a
Faulting process id: 0x1a38
Faulting application start time: 0x01ce11bd93fa748b
Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: f8540ca1-7db1-11e2-bef2-0050b65c54e5
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
And I've applied all the updates from both Lenovo and Microsoft.
I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon and did a clean install of Windows 8.
The only thing that really seems to trigger this for me is when I try to use "File Explorer" to navigate to files. Some days it is fine... Other days I can't get anything done.
I do not have Mozy backup.
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Anonymous
2013-01-31T04:27:53+00:00 I am having what appears to be the same problem with my Windows 8 install.
My windows explorer continually crashes and restarts every ~10 seconds once something triggers it to fail. Then it will loop for several minutes at a time.
I cannot start to follow your instructions as I have a notebook Asus U31SD without an optical drive so I had to download the upgrade.
Can you please help - my computer is now completely unusable until I get this sorted.
Hi, did you find a resolution to this? I am having the same issue also. Thanks.
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Anonymous
2013-01-31T04:23:30+00:00 I also have this problem. Has anyone found a resolution? I can't do anything for 2-3 minutes until the crash/restart loop finishes.