Windows Explorer has stopped working

[bcmarz]

Whenever I'm browsing a folder with videos in it, windows explorer errors and stops working. It restarts itself like always, but why is it doing this? Anyone have any ideas?

[AnnMarie]

Hi bcmarz. Try disabling thumbnail previews and let us know if you still have the same problem. See here (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-thumbnail-previews-in-windows-vista-explorer/) for more help.

[bcmarz]

That fixed the problem. Is there a reason why this occurs? Is it because of the mass overload of thumbnail loading??

[AnnMarie]

XP had/has the same issue. See here (http://www.tweakxp.com/article36849.aspx) for an explanation but dont be tempted to try the XP tweaks. If the problem affects other users, I'm sure that an update will be released by MS to fix it.