Explorer.exe

Solving these issues may solve why my computer is messing up external hard drives.

OK! I know that my computer is missing drivers, error messages always come up saying that. Sometimes when I start my computer, explorer.exe seems to freeze, or stop initializing. I do not know why this is. The way that i solve this is that i go into the task manager, end the explorer.exe process, and then manually start it again in the file bar. All my issues may stem from this, i dont know. If anyone has any ideas, please i really need them. I need this computer for university, which i am currently in.

Explorer.exe problems can come from malware (adware, spyware, etc).

You can follow this post here by rridgely, then post yourself a HijackThis log in the HijackThis Log Analysis area. Or as rridgely has suggested in a recent thread you can also post your log on www.spywareinfo.com (requires registration on their forum).