It is home premium.

i have now resolved the problem by terminating explorer in safemode with
command prompt and deleting the whole desktop folder, i also have a linux
live disk which i was able to delete the offending file with.

I belive that it was caused as a result of a failed firefox download causing
a file of size o having a size of 3mb to mess with explorer as i have had no
such problems since i have removed the offending download file. However a
soloution to prevent this from happening again would be greatfully recieved.

Robert

"Mac" wrote:

> Which version of Vista?
>
> "RobertGrafton" <RobertGrafton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1D336A2B-8168-4EFC-AFB1-B571C918D2FD@microsoft.com...
> >I have had vista for less than 3 weeks and when i download any video file
> >via
> > firefox windows explorer constantly re-starts even after a reboot and in
> > safe
> > mode. it has taken me 20 mins to writ this in-between messages of
> > "explorer
> > has stopped, checking solution" and "explorer is re-starting" but while
> > other
> > proc. run fine just with the irritating box in the way continually
> > changing
> > the window in focus.
> >
> > please please help
> >
> > Robert
>