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  • December 28, 2008

    Fix It: Opening Control Panel Crashes Windows Explorer on XP/Vista

    Have you ever tried to open your Control Panel on Windows XP (or Vista) and every time that you attempted it, you received a “Windows Explorer has Stopped Working” message and your entire Windows environment loses all of its functionality? It can be very bothersome and extremely annoying. This happened to me the other day and there wasn’t a very…

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