Explorer crashes

Do these VB apps do anything to explorer? Toolbars, shell extensions, etc... these may be more likely to influence explorer since they run in it's context...

No, they don't. However, I have a crude workaround that is helping me test. If I kill all processes that are using msvbm60.dll including any explorer.exe processes, I can uninstall the DLL from memory until the next time I use a VB app which has the handy side-effect of increasing my system stability.

What might help is to open an explorer window, goto Tools -> Folder Options, View tab and check "Launch folder windows in a seperate process". This helps isolate the issues with explorer extensions, if it crashes it'll only crash that process, not the taskbar etc. Don't know if it's available under Win9x btw... it sure helped me with a few buggy extensions...

Been there, tried that, read the book, bought the t-shirt, saw the film and then got suckered into buying all the branded merchandise... :p Humour aside, I've tried pretty much everything and have spent countless hours scouring the net for further info. I've sent email to Micro$oft and got only an automated reply back, so who knows if they're looking into it?

MS have just released a new VS service pack, so I'm going to compare the msvbm60.dll versions with what I have (6.00.0096.0090) and if there's any difference I'll begin another round of testing! ???