Explorer page fault in module shell32.DLL

I frequently get the below error message when trying to open a folder to access files. Then it tells me to reboot, which doesn't do any good. What can cause this ?


EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module SHELL32.DLL at 0167:66801af2.
Registers:
EAX=0000650d CS=0167 EIP=66801af2 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=00497990 SS=016f ESP=0199fa34 EBP=0199fa48
ECX=00006000 DS=016f ESI=66801adc FS=5787
EDX=004ed32b ES=016f EDI=004e6e20 GS=2486
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 8b 0a 66 85 c9 75 f1 c2 04 00 83 7c 24 04 00
Stack dump:
71718675 004e6e20 0000008e 004423dc 80004005 0199fa5c 7171a68b 00000047 004e6e20 00000000 0199fa7c 7171a6dd 004934a4 00497990 00000047 00000000

 

Finally mangaged to correct the problem.

Edited the Registry with reg edit.

HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\streamsMRU

According to many BBS messages that I read, this key should have only 28 entries, mine had over a hundred. I deleted about half of them.

What a difference now !!