Windows 7 Explorer Failures - Unsolvable for the last 17 months now.

[TheShadow]

I have the identical Issue

Event viewer is choc-a-bloc with slight variations on the following cut and paste error message (all concerning Windows Explorer in W7):

Faulting application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 6.1.7600.16450, time stamp: 0x4aeba271
Faulting module name: EXPLORERFRAME.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bda55
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0001a256
Faulting process id: 0x7a0
Faulting application start time: 0x01cb50d00e1523a1
Faulting application path: CWindows\Explorer.EXE
Faulting module path: CWindows\system32\EXPLORERFRAME.dll
Report Id: c27ce8f8-bcc3-11df-b746-a4badbcedda4
This application caused a delay in the system shutdown process:
File Name : explorer.exe
Friendly Name : Windows Explorer
Version : 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
Total Time : 5389ms
Degradation Time : 1075ms
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2010‎-‎09‎-‎10T09:10:48.513502900Z

and of course NOTHING comes up under this:

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