For some reason over the past two days, I cannot access images to edit or upload to web sites etc. When ever I try to open an image folder explorer crashes. I tried a third party file browser and that also crashes. If I try to open or save from Photoshop, it crashes. If I try to browse to the folder to upload an image via FileZilla FTP that crashes as soon as I touch the image folders. I have defraged, run spyware, MS Malware removal tool etc. No luck. This has caused my work to grind to a stand still because unless I can edit and upload images I can't work on web sites. ( I can do some work booted in Linux but Pshop does not function in Wine ) Typically there is no error message, it just crashes. DrWatson log is nothing but Greek to me. c0000005 access violation Then over a meg of dumped code to long to post here. Any ideas?

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Done that....more confused than before. The DrWatson log does not specify any application. Says App (PID-144) but a search for that brings up everything except that so I still don't know what causes this. This is a sudden new problem and no new programs have been installed up to that time. I did since install a couple more programs to try to scan system for problems but no help. Note: I moved a copy of the directory I needed to work on to a different drive and don't have that issue there. But many /image directories on the troubled location cause the same problem. I open then and explorer crashes. I copy moved to an external USB backup drive has the same problem. Explorer crashes when I try to open the image directory. Other folders don't seem to be affected. PK