I have had this issue for weeks now occurring on another user's machine. Windows 7, 32 Bit system, 4 Gigs of RAM.
Explorer.exe crashes without rhyme or reason.
When i first noticed the issue, i thought it was weird that her desktop icons and task bar never disappeared... just the folder window she had opened.
After weeks of uninstalling this and that... I finally noticed a second instance of Explorer.exe that only pops up when browsing folders. I googled everything I could think of, and finally came across the nifty Process Explorer. When i check the properties of the command line of the second explorer that keeps crashing, i see this:
c:\windows\explorer.exe /factory,{ceff45ee-c862-41de-aee2-a022c81eda92} -embedding
I searched that entire string, and learned that {ceff45ee-c862-41de-aee2-a022c81eda92} is actually a value in the registry. When I google that value itself, it led me to this very forum.
In regards to Classic Shell, one of the first things i did was disable the shell extensions to see if that would disable the second instance running every time a folder was open. Nothing changed.
I then went ahead and completely uninstalled classic shell. Nothing Changed. At all.
Is classic shell known for editing this registry value? How can I stop this second instance of explorer.exe from starting?
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