Solved Explorer.exe crashes constantly

I recently installed 8 and eventually 8.1. Every 5-10 mins no matter what i'm doing, explorer freezes. THe only thing i can click on is the taskbar. The bar eventually crashes after a few clicks and then explorer restarts, but with a few of my icons near the clock missing. I then have to log out or reboot to restore everything. This recently started. I thought it was a bad install, so i wiped my drive and re-installed, but still the sane its made win 8 quite useless, this thing is driving me crazy. I'm close to going back to win 7. First version of windows I purchased ever. This is probably payback for pirating windows for the last 20 years

i7 3770k stock speed and oc to 4.6 (doesnt matter, still crashees)
16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz
Samsung EVO 840 ssd 256gb
Asus Radeon 7870 sith current drivers
Win 8.1 pro with Media Center

sfc /scannow reports no problems


This is the event viewer info:

Description
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.
Faulting Application Path: C:\Windows\explorer.exe


Problem signature
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: explorer.exe
Application Version: 6.3.9600.17284
Application Timestamp: 53f816dc
Hang Signature: 129d
Hang Type: 134217729
OS Version: 6.3.9600.2.0.0.256.103
Locale ID: 4105
Additional Hang Signature 1: 129d857229bf4e0019ee43a51c12fcda
Additional Hang Signature 2: d346
Additional Hang Signature 3: d346abb414dff47cffb65d82e7f16a4f
Additional Hang Signature 4: 74e6
Additional Hang Signature 5: 74e6f54639c82bf513dca7848ba4c2be
Additional Hang Signature 6: 5235
Additional Hang Signature 7: 5235537baa689ab90562362f636cc2a9


Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 21f41e63fa7238068ba5bbcb5dd424e8 (94592681208)

Option Two: How to start Explorer in a separate process

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Hang
Date: 2014-11-17 12:23:40 AM
Event ID: 1002
Task Category: (101)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: ROG_i7
Description:
The program Explorer.EXE version 6.3.9600.17284 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: 1048
Start Time: 01d0021af983eb75
Termination Time: 0
Application Path: C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
Report Id: df7128d1-6e19-11e4-825c-005056c00008
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:


Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Hang" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1002</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>101</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-11-17T05:23:40.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>4127</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>ROG_i7</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>Explorer.EXE</Data>
<Data>6.3.9600.17284</Data>
<Data>1048</Data>
<Data>01d0021af983eb75</Data>
<Data>0</Data>
<Data>C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE</Data>
<Data>df7128d1-6e19-11e4-825c-005056c00008</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Binary>430072006F00730073002D0074006800720065006100640000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

This recently started. I thought it was a bad install, so i wiped my drive and re-installed, but still the same.

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Most users install 3rd-party software for a variety of purposes. Have you done so before the crashes? Or are the crashes occurring soon after a 'clean' install?

It happens soon after a 'clean' install. If i open a folder with video files it crashes.

I solved the problem. I went back to my pirated version of windows 7. Just wasted hundreds of dollars on windows 8. Guess my computer isn't good enough to run Windows 8

Hi kingturbofox

could you explain more about the "folder with video"
what is the video format?
is there any other file in this folder?
does explorer crash if you move this video to another folder?