My Documents crashes

Every time i view the my documents folder on my computer it craashes back to the desktop. However i can still access all my files through programs anyone have any ideas what it could be? BTW I'm Running windows XP on this system:

Multivision laptop
P4 2.8ghz
1gb ram
60gb hard disk (20 gb remaining)

Any help would be very much appreciated

Thanks for the advice i don't know how to solve the problem but i can access all my documents as the way i have it set up there is a seperate folder in my computer called 'alans documents' strangely that works and so does 'users documents' it is just when i access the my documents folder. So i'm just gonna replace the shortcut on my desktop with alan documents

thankyou again for your help

[DeMoN]

Does it crash if you access MY DOCUMENTS through the START - RUN too?

Cheers Demon just tried runing my documents like you said and it works fine wierd ain't it!! . Computers don't think i'll ever understand them