Vista - Explorer Constantly Crashing

[Hippiekiller]

Over the past two weeks windows explorer has been constantly crashing on both my home system and my work laptop.

Home system is Vista 64 - stable hardware with no other software crashing programs.

Work system is Vista 32 - again no other crashing problems in other software.

Has anyone else noticed an extreme increase in the instances of win explorer crashing in vista? Only thing I can think of is maybe I have too many Icons on my desktops... can that cause problems with explorer failing to respond?

 

[amdhunter]

Did you scan for malware/viruses or anything? Maybe it's RAM or disk related? Look at event viewer, it might give you a hint to what is going on.

My Vista has been rock solid, and I haven't heard anyone else complaining. I don't think a ton of icons would really cause explorer to crash.

 

[MadRat]

Are you transferring media back and forth on a usb stick?