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I don't know if this has anything to do with Classic Shell, but the taskbar has started freezing.

It freezes for about a minute and then restarts itself, but some of the program icons such as 'Ditto' and 'Winpatrol' don't appear, so I have to restart my laptop.
Unless there is a way of restarting the taskbar without restarting my laptop?

Any help will be very much appreciated.

Thanks

It means your Explorer.exe has started hanging or crashing. If you could capture a crash dump using the instructions in this post: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6 it can be determined whether Classic Shell or some other app/shell extension is causing the crash.

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I've downloaded ProcDump and it is running.
The problem is, is that I get the freeze when starting my laptop.
Once everything has loaded it will freeze.
How do I use ProcDump before the laptop has started fully?

What does: 'Press Ctrl-C to end monitoring without terminating the process.' mean?
Does it mean ProcDump will still be running when I restart my laptop?

I think I have solved the issue.

It was due to Window update 3033889.

There was a fix with Window update 3048778.

I will see how I get on tomorrow and let you know.

No I haven't solved it - it's still happening.

I will upload the crash dump as soon as possible.

For capturing dumps on startup, see the second post here: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6

Here are four captured dumps:

http://1drv.ms/1HpcB8g

The crashes don't seem related to Classic Shell.
Two DLLs stand out - IObit Uninstaller\UninstallExplorer64.dll and System32\devrtl.dll.
My hunch is that the uninstaller DLL gets unloaded unexpectedly. Windows 8.1 is a bit more aggressive in unloading DLLs it thinks are not needed.

Try this:
Uninstall Classic Shell for a day and see if the crashes continue
Upgrade to the latest IObit Uninstaller or remove it temporarily

Thanks for your help.

I had recently installed IObit uninstaller.
I have uninstalled it and everything seems alright so far.
I had the latest version of IObit Uninstaller, how could it cause explorer.exe to crash?
Could Iobit Uninstaller have caused a problem with System32/devrtl.dll?

It just crashed again.
Could there be a problem with System32/devrtl.dll
Is there any way to check and fix it if there is a problem with it?

I don't know.
devrtl.dll seems related to devices. Maybe you have a faulty device or driver.
Uninstall Classic Shell and see if you keep getting crashes.

I have run sfc /scannow and it said there were no errors.

So I've run Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth anyway.

At the end it said that it had fixed curruption, so I don't know if there was a problem or not.

I've restarted and will have to see if it has corrected the problem.

It seems to be alright so far.
I will see what it's like tomorrow.

I've been using my laptop for the last few hours and everything seems alright, so it looks like there was corruption which Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth fixed.