Unable to view system32 items in Control Panel

[Shapeshifter]

Suffering from the notorius "no mail-icon in control panel" an exellent post in another thread adviced me to look in the "Wiew system32 Control Panel items" but when to try to open or explore this location, another window opens and a prompt tells me explorer has stopped working, and that vista is looking for a solution to the problem. It stops after a while, not really offering any information other than that an error cause explorer to stop working.
I've had the same error a couple of times earlier, due to Outpost Firewall not beeing quick enough to offer me the option to approve an application for enabling network based processes.

I'm really not an advanced user, so any help on the matter would be much appreciated.

Shapeshifter