windows explorer crashes and restarts

Hi, neewbie here who has been doing some searching

Ive recently been having problems accessing files on XP. they have mainly been large movies I have ripped on my PC. When I go into access them, the computer freezes up and explorer (Windows) closes and restarts. I have had to restart it myself sometimes. Task manager has also been disabled although a quick reg program has got that up and running again.
I have run a complete virus scan and ad aware scan as per recommendations on this site, but am still having probs
for example a new Maxtor one touch 750gb disc will also cause explorer to crash when I am working within it.

Can someone please help or at least point me in the right direction.
Cheers

 

no further forward

Hi, thanks for pointing me in the right direction at least.

Downloaded the shell extension viewer and followed instructions. No good though. (Maybe I have to restart PC?)

Have run 2 full system scans and ad aware twice including 2 online scans.

Downloaded the debugging tools and installed , followed those instructions but the debugwiz program claims that no debugg tools can be found. Despite this it has it has output a file and when I go to that location , it aint there.

So unfortunately no further forward.

 

The advice on the link suggested that the crashing was sometimes due to shell extensions, so I downloaded the program as instructed (program allows you to view exactly what extensions are installed) and disabled all extensions that were not microsoft as per instructions. However the crash still occurs

 

Now its all gone Pete Tong

OK this is where we are at now then. I have just infected my drive with loads of viruses
Basically I can log on and within a minute or so, explorer has crashed and restarted 3/4 times. Following this I have a dark blue desktop with no icons - explorer crashes for good and task manager has been disabled - Blank blue screen
Question 1 - Can I recover?


HOwever I have another drive installed on the PC (original C drive now a slave) with xp . I am currently trying to reclaim all the important data from the most recent drive (F) and am then considering a fresh install.

Is this the only way forward because having run deep scans of the drive f from the working drive I have been unable to sort the prob.