Troubleshooting Windows Explorer

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Published on 2010-05-19T00:03:34Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 0:10 UTC
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I have a .NET application that receives messages from a web server and alerts the user. I have one Windows XP SP3 computer that when my application receives the message, it crashes the Windows Explorer shell. (I can see the message received in the listview just before Explorer crashes.) I don't see any errors in the Windows event logs. Is there somewhere that I should be looking at to troubleshoot this problem?

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