Like many other people I had hanging or freezing errors in explorer but I updated the explorer 5.5 on Microsofts site and gone are my freezing problems. Never had shutdown problems though.
PC:
Asus A7V ver. 1.01
TBird 700@800
2 x 128Mb Hyundai ram
SB Live + Liveware 3 with optical SPDIF
Asus 6800 Pure with 6.27 drv.
Hauppage Win TV
Lan 100Mb
ISDN modem Etech
Maxtor 20Gb UDMA4
PC:
Asus A7V ver. 1.01
TBird 700@800
2 x 128Mb Hyundai ram
SB Live + Liveware 3 with optical SPDIF
Asus 6800 Pure with 6.27 drv.
Hauppage Win TV
Lan 100Mb
ISDN modem Etech
Maxtor 20Gb UDMA4