Explorer.exe+quits+when+you+try+to+search+for+a+file

Explorer.exe quits when you try to search for a file

If you try to search for a file in Windows XP and the Explorer.exe process suddenly quits, causing the taskbar to disappear for a moment and the desktop to be redrawn. And you get the following Microsoft message:-

After you restart the computer, you may receive the following error message: Explorer.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost. Please tell Microsoft about this problem. We have created an error report that you can send to help us improve Explorer.exe. We will treat this report as confidential and anonymous. To see what data this error report contains, click here.

Panic not it just may be that you installed the Windows 2000 Resource Kit on your XP computer and this copied the Rkadmin.dll file to the System32 folder.

If that is what you have done there exists according to Microsoft a workaround the problem

What you do is uninstall the Resource Kit.

If you want to read in detail go to Microsoft []  