This error occurs because of some driver you have updated or something got bugged anyway the problem is not in the game it's in the PC, generally to fix this as its your explorer.exe which is crushing you need to find a solution from MS.
What SP are you using?
Here is a patch which should fix the problem if you are running SP2 - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329692&Product=winxp
Haven't tried it on SP3 so don;t know if it's gonna work for it but give it a shot.