More problems *sigh*

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As of yesterday, whenever I go to open any folder it will let me go there, but shortly after that, it comes up with an explorer error and asks if I'd like to send an error report. Once I click either send or don't send, my screen will go blank except for my background picture for a few seconds, then everything will come back as it was.This is getting extremely annoying as I am constantly in and out of the folders of my external hard drives.

What should I do? Would rebooting with the "The last time your computer worked fine" (I cant remember the option name) option solve this?
 
Diablo'
As of yesterday, whenever I go to open any folder it will let me go there, but shortly after that, it comes up with an explorer error and asks if I'd like to send an error report. Once I click either send or don't send, my screen will go blank except for my background picture for a few seconds, then everything will come back as it was.This is getting extremely annoying as I am constantly in and out of the folders of my external hard drives.

What should I do? Would rebooting with the "The last time your computer worked fine" (I cant remember the option name) option solve this?
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Is this in all directories? If it's just one directory, it points to a corrupt system file in that directory, such as thumbs.db. You could open the directory in a Command Prompt and delete the file (use attrib -rhs *.* if you can't see it in DOS).

You should probably schedule a full disk check (including bad sectors) on the volume too.
 
Yes, it is only when I leave the window open on my 500gb that it comes up with the error.

By check you mean defragment and stuff like that? Would that interfere with some incomplete files that I have that will be complete later on?
 
Diablo'
Yes, it is only when I leave the window open on my 500gb that it comes up with the error.

By check you mean defragment and stuff like that? Would that interfere with some incomplete files that I have that will be complete later on?
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I'm in Vista right now, but for XP disk check is found at My Computer (properties)>hardware. You should see some sort of diagnostic stuff I think. If not it could be when you go to the properties of the disk itself.
 
Damn, the same thing happened to me, except me screen went blank for good, nothing opened after that. Thats why I formatted the HD, maybe that would be a last resort.
 

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