Persistent Error: "Windows Explorer has stopped working" followed by restart.

Question

This particularly demonic error has been plaguing my system lately. Every ~10-15 seconds, my Windows 7 64bit machine has the following error:

"Windows Explorer has stopped working", and then Explorer restarts.

I know it's not a virus, and have seen similar issues on these forums. I've tried solutions offered there, to no avail. Under computer management, these errors are flagged as Application Errors, with the following details:

Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16450, time stamp: 0x4aebab8d

Faulting module name: explorer.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16450, time stamp: 0x4aebab8d

Exception code: 0xc000041d

Fault offset: 0x000000000002cc2b

Faulting process id: 0x6a8

Faulting application start time: 0x01cb74aeb6c5d066

Faulting application path: C:\Windows\explorer.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Windows\explorer.exe

Report Id: fd67cad4-e0a1-11df-8d60-001fbc091bb0

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Please help! This is essentially bricking my Windows Box, and is serving only to nudge me in the direction of adopting Fedora as my primary OS.

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Answer 1

"Windows Explorer has stopped working", and then Explorer restarts.

Exception code: 0xc000041d

//

// MessageId: STATUS_FATAL_USER_CALLBACK_EXCEPTION

//

// MessageText:

//

// An unhandled exception was encountered during a user callback.

//

#define STATUS_FATAL_USER_CALLBACK_EXCEPTION ((NTSTATUS)0xC000041D L)

This mostly happens when Windows files are corrupted.

Please start the command prompt (cmd.exe) with admin rights [1] and run sfc [2]:

sfc.exe /scannow

Is it able to find and repair broken files? Is the Explorer now working again?

best regards

André

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/How-do-I-run-an-application-once-with-a-full-administrator-access-token

[2] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833

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