Explorer.exe Fail fast exception? Kill me?

[SlackAssassin]

Hey lads,

 

I can't seem to find any info on this that's relevant, but sometimes when I alt-tab out of a game or program I get a windows error called Explorer.exe Fail Fast Exception. It locks up my computer and I can only clear it by alt-tabbing to the pop-up error window and pressing enter; I can't click it.

 

After clearing it this way it pops up again about 2 or 3 more times immediately after, and each time I have to alt-tab to it again and repeat the process. After clearing it the first time, Windows does the thing it does when you restart Windows Explorer. All my desktops flash to a default screen momentarily, and my taskbar refreshes. I've attached an image someone else took on their system and will post on this.

 

I had this issue on my last computer midway through last year, and I built a whole new computer that is still somehow doing it. It does this on fullscreen programs AND windowed programs alike.

 

This thing is driving me nuts and I can't work out how to stop it from happening. It happens once or twice a day, but it's enough to drive me mad.

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Sidenote: I delete a lot of stock windows programs that I consider bloatware which sometimes requires me going into the registry editor, and I have used regedit to 'fix' windows explorer in the past, so this may be having an effect but I'd like another opinion.