Windows Explorer Has Stopped Working

Fairly recent install on new hardware. Dual boot with XP, which works fine and is running a separate physical drive.

Whenever I try to delete anything through explorer, I get the infamous "Windows Explorer has stopped working" message. Deleting through command prompt works fine for the most part, aside from some odd "access denied" messages on certain folders.

Suggestions?

I don't have this key in my registry that they are talking about .. in that location.. I have something about throttling under a google part of my registry.. but this could help you:

Found on another message board:

Here is the hack to fix this errors.

1. Click Start.
2. In the Search Bar, type regedit and press Enter.
3. Locate the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows\DisabledSessions
4. In the right pane delete this subkey: MachineThrottling
5. Turn your computer off and back on for the change to take effect

THIS IS NOT A GOOD FIX, BUT CAN YOU JUST SELECT IT AND HIT THE delete KEY.

tblount: the MachineThrottling key doesn't exist in that location in my registry. In fact, that entire sub-key is empty.

reghakr: huh? I can barely understand what you're saying, but it sounds roughly as though you're asking if hitting the delete key deletes the target item. And, no, it doesn't - deleting in any way from explorer causes explorer to crash.

I find it difficult to comprehend why explorer should be this fragile. The only apps I have installed are Firefox, Visual Studio 2008, Sql Server Express, and some source control apps. I uninstalled my SVN client (TortoiseSVN) since it performs file system monitoring, but the problem persists.

Help!

Originally Posted by techvette

tblount: the MachineThrottling key doesn't exist in that location in my registry. In fact, that entire sub-key is empty.

reghakr: huh? I can barely understand what you're saying,

I should have just posted the link rather than trying a brief overview:

How to fix “Windows Explorer has stopped working” in Windows 7 | Web Talk

I don't mean to blow you off, but check out the Programming forum as I believe I remember some issues with Visual Studio.

This crashing in Explorer caused me a problem in Vistaa also, so I re-installed the OS and it's working file.

I have the same problem. Tried

1. Click Start.
2. In the Search Bar, type regedit and press Enter.
3. Locate the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SQMClient\Wi ndows\DisabledSessions
4. In the right pane delete this subkey: MachineThrottling
5. Turn your computer off and back on for the change to take effect

but my computer does not say Machine Throttling. It says default, REG_SZ and not configured. I tried changing the last to Machine Throttling, but don't want to delete in case I should not have done that. It's driving crazy!

I've got the same situation (It says default, REG_SZ and not configured). So has anybody found another solution? This seems to occur most frequently when on pages that after filtering, an sql is kicked of to generate a report. I'm also getting Office Execl is not working and Office Outlook is not working

There is no Outlook Express in Windows 7.

i haven't used Office in 5 years.

Sorry

I have the same problems, but only in certain menus. most often in the Control Panel: action center, networking and sharing center ................ can it be a virus??!?!?! Its driving me crazy and really MAD =( i have tried the thing to delete the machine throttling, but no difference......... plz help!!!