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I have OS Windows 7 RTM. Sometimes when I click on some folders or some of partitions there's an error "Windows explorer has stopped working". Can I fix this? Does the same mistake exist on the Windows 7 full version? Thanks

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The RTM is the full version. – Sasha Chedygov Oct 29 '09 at 20:55
Next time this happens, click the "More Information" link, and see if it gives you a DLL or EXE other than Explorer.exe. There should be a big block of copyable text in a scrolling text box if you go far enough. Edit your question with the pasted copy of this information and we can figure out what's causing it. Sorry if some of the directions are incorrect. I'm doing this from memory from a similar issue I had a while back that turned out to be caused by Stardock Fences. – TuxRug Aug 23 '10 at 1:14
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Are your partitions corrupt? Do you have any shell extensions that haven't been tested with Windows 7 installed?

RTM is the final version, and it's highly unlikely they'd ship with such a bug, so it must be a problem with your setup.

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There have been some updates what i heard, and there also exist some black-hangs (the famous blue-screen now seems to appear as totally blank.

But that explorer stop working could be as the one before wrote, shell extension or a faulty installation sounds like the issue here.

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Are you running Firefox in private browsing mode on Windows 7 x64 by any chance? There's a known bug in the Windows clipboard API when switching from a 32-bit application(for example, Firefox) to a 64-bit one, and it tends to cause explorer.exe to crash.

See the following bug report on FF's bugzilla

Anyhow, it should be fixed in a future release (If you're really anxious, Firefox 3.6 beta 5 already includes the fix but being a beta release it may have other stability issues)

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