Failure of explorer.exe upon startup

[OOZ662]

Ever OTHER time I start AHTwice Explorer crashes.  I know how to recover the computer after this, but it's getting annoying.  This just started after patch 5

[Skuzzy]

More than likely you have some malware, spyware, trojan, virus, or some other background program running, you are not aware of, hooking explorer.
What operating system is this?

Do you use Internet Explorer for WEB browsing?
If you do, have you left Internet Explorer's at its default security settings?

If you get here due the above questions being answered "Yes", then you probably have some very nasty programs running on your computer you are not aware of.

[OOZ662]

I know I have adware because of iMesh. (Better than Kazaa in download time but loves eating memory alive) I run AdAware 6 and Spybot S&D weekly. The only things left are the iMesh programs because if I delete them, iMesh stops working.

I do reboot after using iMesh if I want to play AHII(just so that you know I've read yer post and that I'm not dumb enough to try and leave it running under AHII), and I only use it every two weeks or so.

I just wish there was a free P2P that didn't cause havok to your system.


Please excuse any grammar twitches I missed; it's 2:03 in the morning...