Windows explorer crashes in Win 2k. Help!

[JoeBob]

I have a strange problem that I cannot figure out. Whenever I try to open windows explorer in my win 2k install, it crashes and I get the standard windows error saying that the program encountered an error and is shutting down. The PC will then return to the desktop, but some of the icons in my system tray will have dissapeared and will not return unitl I reboot the PC. If I do this several times explorer will eventually run, but the icons will not come back until reboot. This has alwasys been the case with this PC through several clean installs over the last 2 years. Any ideas on what might be causing this? All updates and patches have been applied to Win 2k.

Thanks in advance!

1.33 Thunderbird
Asus A7v-133
512 MB Crucial pc 133
1 60G Seagate Win2k
1 40G Seagate Mandrake 9.0
1 30G IBM Data
1 Samsung DVD CDRW Combo
1 Samsung CD
Radeon 9500 PRO
Fortissimo 7.1 sound card
D-Link nic

 

[mrweirdo]

my guess it would hae to be some software or drivers that you might have installed on that system that is causing some kind of conflict type problem with explorer or is poorly coded.