Computer Experts, Help Me: Problems with Explorer

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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When I start Windows, this error message appears:

Explorer: This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.

When I press the “Details” button, this is what appears:

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff9db61.
Registers:
EAX=c0030bfc CS=0167 EIP=bff9db61 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=0059ff68 SS=016f ESP=0055fe90 EBP=0056012c
ECX=00000000 DS=016f ESI=00000000 FS=29b7
EDX=bff76855 ES=016f EDI=bff79138 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
53 8b 15 e4 9c fc bf 56 89 4d e4 57 89 4d dc 89
Stack dump:

I then press “OK” and the error message comes up again 3-5 times. When it finally disappears and lets me into the desktop, my active desktop background is missing. I do a desktop recovery and restore it. Each time I start Windows, no matter how I shut down, this always happens. I don’t know what the problem is or how to fix it. Please contact me if you have any suggestions for what to do.

I can’t believe I’m posting about something like this, but I dunno what else to do. sigh Pwease help me!

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Try turning active desktop off, and see if the message returns. Also, try disabling other resident utility programs (the ones that inhabit the system tray).

You may need to restart in Safe Mode in order to get to the necessary screens.