windows 7 - Explorer.exe keeps crashing during log in

Update: Solved the issue after some trial and error. The file {AFBF9F1A-8EE8-4C77-AF34-C647E37CA0D9}.1.ver0x0000000000000020.db in AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Caches was corrupt. Scheduled CHKDSK could not recover it. Moreover, somehow it corrupted some other files, which prevents the windows from booting. Now I can not access the good profile either.

Then I booted from Windows 7 installation disk and choose Reapir my computer. I opened command prompt and ran CHKDSK from there:

CHKDSK /R /F C:

After several (long) hours, file system scan completed. It recovered some corrupted files and reported a few bad sectors. :-( But after I restarted the computer, windows booted normally (faster than before, i think).

I have got a weird problem. My windows 7 has two user accounts (both are administrator). I can log in to one account and do all sort of work. But whenever I try to log in to other account, it shows a blank screen and a messagebox pops up with "windows explorer has stopped working".
The options available are:

• Close the program
• Check online for a solution and close the program

The problem signature is as follows:

Problem Event Name:     InPageError
Error Status Code:      c000009c
Faulting Media Type:    00000003
OS Version:         6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID:          1033
Additional Information 1:   0a9e
Additional Information 2:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3:   0a9e
Additional Information 4:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

If I press alt+ctrl+del and then select start task manager, it also crashes. I can not run any program using runas command (from good profile) too. The task manager and runas programs all show same problem signature.

I read the similar question and followed all the steps, but no luck.

Later, I viewed the event log and found that, explorer.exe could not access a file. I checked the location but the file is there. The actual message is:

Windows cannot access the file C:\Users\testuser\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Caches\{AFBF9F1A-8EE8-4C77-AF34-C647E37CA0D9}.1.ver0x0000000000000020.db for one of the following reasons: there is a problem with the network connection, the disk that the file is stored on, or the storage drivers installed on this computer; or the disk is missing. Windows closed the program Windows Explorer because of this error.

The question is, how can I resolve this issue? Should I just delete the file or replace it with another one to stop explorer.exe from crashing?

offtopic: What is the content of this file and why it is necessary?

Inpage error and your error code

err c000009c
# for hex 0xc000009c / decimal -1073741668
  STATUS_DEVICE_DATA_ERROR                                       ntstatus.h

means that Windows is unable to read data from the HDD. So you should backup as many data as possible (using a Live OS like Linux) and run a HDD diagnostic tool from your HDD manufacture to see details.

If one account works and the other doesn't then, from experience, you most probably have some malware that is being loaded when the "broken" account logs in. Run a malware and antivirus scan.

Another solution may be to backup the broken user files, delete and then recreate the user account with a fresh profile.