[brinkbrad]

upgraded from XP to Vista home premium and now Windows Explorer shuts down and restarts over and over again and can't open any computer programs.

[kiba166]

Originally Posted by brinkbrad

upgraded from XP to Vista home premium and now Windows Explorer shuts down and restarts over and over again and can't open any computer programs.

try turning firewall off

a main problem with vista is the windows defender that blocks everything.

[DaveA]

Originally Posted by kiba166

try turning firewall off

a main problem with vista is the windows defender that blocks everything.

I do NOT think this will help, as you most likely have a hardware issue. Have you install Vista drivers for ALL of your hardware?

[brinkbrad]

yes all hardwear up todate

[brinkbrad]

diden't work

[DaveA]

What printers, scanners and other external devices do you have plugged in?

[brinkbrad]

right now I don't have any thing except the moniter pluged into it and I am working on another computer untel I get this problem figured out

[DaveA]

Did you do a clean install or a upgrade install of Vista on this XP machine?

[meshuggah]

I was going crazy with this same problem. Not sure if it'll apply to anyone else's problem of this type but here's what I did to fix it. I went into msconfig to find out what was in the startup list. I found 2 weird entries in there that were in system 32 that loaded on startup. So I removed these from the list and ran a HiJack This scan. And bingo those 2 entries happened to pop up as BHO's, there were 4 of them. After I removed those I did a windows defender scan just for the hell of it and it stated that everything was working fine. So I restarted and viola! I can now open folders and everything and explorer.exe doesn't shutdown or restart. So I'd say my problem was caused by spyware, but I figured I'd run it by here to see if it'll help anyone else out. Cheers.