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Disabling the Storage Service in the Services app worked for me. I was experiencing this error on every restart, explorer crashing hundreds of times causing it to take several minutes for the desktop to stabilise. Safe mode was fine, but the crashes still occurred after using System Configuration (msconfig.exe) to enable only Microsoft services and no startup programs… a process of elimination pinpointed that disabling a single Microsoft service - Storage Service - resolved the crash. I don’t personally need this service for my setup, but irritatingly Windows Store seems to require it to download or update apps. The workaround is just to start the Storage Service manually when I need it. I tried other things that made no improvement including but not limited to:

1. UnInstalling everything third-party storage related, e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive, VMWare, Virtual/CloneDrives etc.
2. Removing all USB devices (including even keyboard and mouse!)
3. Cleanup of old registry entries and shell extensions using shellexview, AutoRuns etc.
4. Deleting files in %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations (reported to work for one lucky user)
5. Complete In-Place repair installation of Windows 10 22H2.
6. Complete removal of nVidia drivers using DDU in Safe Mode.
7. Setting the Explorer option to Open-new-windows-in-a-different-process and deleting Explorer folder History.

I’d prefer to be able to enable the Storage Service automatically again though - if anyone has a better solution please update this thread.

Disabling the Storage Service in the Services app worked for me.

I was experiencing this error on every restart, explorer crashing hundreds of times causing it to take several minutes for the desktop to stabilise. Safe mode was fine, but the crashes still occurred after using System Configuration (msconfig.exe) to enable only Microsoft services and no startup programs… a process of elimination pinpointed that disabling a single Microsoft service - Storage Service - resolved the crash. I don’t personally need this service for my setup, but irritatingly Windows Store seems to require it to download or update apps. The workaround is just to start the Storage Service manually when I need it. I had tried various other suggestions that made no improvement including but not limited to:

1. UnInstalling everything third-party storage related, e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive, VMWare, Virtual/CloneDrives etc.
2. Removing all USB devices (including even keyboard and mouse!)
3. Cleanup of old registry entries and shell extensions using shellexview, AutoRuns etc. and disabling all non-Microsoft ones
4. Deleting files in %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations (reported to work for one lucky user)
5. Complete In-Place repair installation of Windows 10 22H2.
6. Complete removal of nVidia drivers using DDU in Safe Mode.
7. Setting the File Explorer Option to Launch-folder-windows-in-a-separate-process and deleting Explorer folder History.

I’d prefer to be able to enable the Storage Service automatically again though - if anyone has a better solution please update this thread.

Disabling the Storage Service in the Services app worked for me. I was experiencing this error on every restart, explorer crashing hundreds of times causing it to take several minutes for the desktop to stabilise. Safe mode was fine, but the crashes still occurred after using System Configuration to enable only Microsoft services and no startup programs… a process of elimination pinpointed that disabling a single Microsoft service - Storage Service - resolved the crash. I don’t personally need this service for my setup, but irritatingly Windows Store seems to require it to download or update apps. The workaround is just to start the Storage Service manually when I need it. I tried other things that made no improvement including but not limited to:

1. UnInstalling everything third-party storage related, e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive, VMWare, Virtual/CloneDrives etc.
2. Removing all USB devices (including even keyboard and mouse!)
3. Cleanup of old registry entries and shell extensions using shellexview, AutoRuns etc.
4. Deleting files in %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations (reported to work for one lucky user)
5. Complete In-Place repair installation of Windows 10 22H2.
6. Complete removal of nVidia drivers using DDU in Safe Mode.
7. Setting the Explorer option to Open-new-windows-in-a-different-process and deleting Explorer folder History.

I’d prefer to be able to enable the Storage Service automatically again though - if anyone has a better solution please update this thread.

Disabling the Storage Service in the Services app worked for me. I was experiencing this error on every restart, explorer crashing hundreds of times causing it to take several minutes for the desktop to stabilise. Safe mode was fine, but the crashes still occurred after using System Configuration (msconfig.exe) to enable only Microsoft services and no startup programs… a process of elimination pinpointed that disabling a single Microsoft service - Storage Service - resolved the crash. I don’t personally need this service for my setup, but irritatingly Windows Store seems to require it to download or update apps. The workaround is just to start the Storage Service manually when I need it. I tried other things that made no improvement including but not limited to:

1. UnInstalling everything third-party storage related, e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive, VMWare, Virtual/CloneDrives etc.
2. Removing all USB devices (including even keyboard and mouse!)
3. Cleanup of old registry entries and shell extensions using shellexview, AutoRuns etc.
4. Deleting files in %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations (reported to work for one lucky user)
5. Complete In-Place repair installation of Windows 10 22H2.
6. Complete removal of nVidia drivers using DDU in Safe Mode.
7. Setting the Explorer option to Open-new-windows-in-a-different-process and deleting Explorer folder History.

I’d prefer to be able to enable the Storage Service automatically again though - if anyone has a better solution please update this thread.

Disabling the Storage Service worked for me. I was experiencing this issue on every restart, explorer crashing hundreds of times causing it to take several minutes for the desktop to stabilise. Safe mode was fine, but the crashes still occurred after using System Configuration to enable all normal services but no startup programs… a process of elimination pinpointed that disabling a single service - Storage Service - resolved the crash. I don’t personally need this service for my setup, but irritatingly Windows Store seems to require it for updates (poor effort MS?). The workaround is just to start the service manually when I need it, but I’ll continue to investigate the real root cause.

Disabling the Storage Service in the Services app worked for me. I was experiencing this error on every restart, explorer crashing hundreds of times causing it to take several minutes for the desktop to stabilise. Safe mode was fine, but the crashes still occurred after using System Configuration to enable only Microsoft services and no startup programs… a process of elimination pinpointed that disabling a single Microsoft service - Storage Service - resolved the crash. I don’t personally need this service for my setup, but irritatingly Windows Store seems to require it to download or update apps. The workaround is just to start the Storage Service manually when I need it. I tried other things that made no improvement including but not limited to:

1. UnInstalling everything third-party storage related, e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive, VMWare, Virtual/CloneDrives etc.
2. Removing all USB devices (including even keyboard and mouse!)
3. Cleanup of old registry entries and shell extensions using shellexview, AutoRuns etc.
4. Deleting files in %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations (reported to work for one lucky user)
5. Complete In-Place repair installation of Windows 10 22H2.
6. Complete removal of nVidia drivers using DDU in Safe Mode.
7. Setting the Explorer option to Open-new-windows-in-a-different-process and deleting Explorer folder History.

I’d prefer to be able to enable the Storage Service automatically again though - if anyone has a better solution please update this thread.