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Windows Explorer Not Responding But Crashes or Restarts (Windows 11)

Question: Whenever Windows Explorer is opened, it freezes and shows the "App Not Responding" dialog. Then it crashes or shows the contents of the folder I clicked and freezes afterwards. I ...
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Windows 10 File Explorer very slow, constantly processing, hanging & crashing. Tried to fix for years, many reinstalls. Do I need to upgrade?

I know this is a long post but only because I have taken great effort to fully describe the problem and that which I have tried to resolve the issue. This problem exists on what is basically a server. ...
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Windows 11 Canary Channel: explorer.exe not working

I ran ExplorerPatcher on my Windows laptop then force stopped it as explorer.exe unexpectedly shut down. explorer.exe didn't boot up using Task Manager, nor after restart, nor in Safe Mode, nor when I ...
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Windows 11 - explorer.exe randomly crashing when shift right-clicking on taskbar

If I shift+right click (re-enabled functionality via registry) an icon in my taskbar, explorer.exe randomly crashes and restarts, killing all my open explorer-windows which is kinda annoying. After ...
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Windows File Explorer broken after latest update

I'm not sure where was the right place to ask this. My roommate has a gaming laptop that runs windows 11 as most games don't support 7 anymore and the latest update not only changed the appearance of ...
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Wininet.dll repeatedly causes explorer.exe and dllhost.exe to crash

I am using SUSE's Harvester to run virtual machines (It uses KVM). Using that, I created a virtual machine with a Windows 10 Pro installation (22H2). Today when I restored the vm from a VM snapshot, ...
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Explorer.exe in infinite crash loop caused by Taskbar.View.dll

My Windows 11 (build 25252.1000, pro for workstations insider preview) has a critical problem now that explorer.exe repeatedly crashes and restart almost every second. The problem occurs after ...
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Windows 11 ucrtbase.dll explorer crash 0xc0000409

I have been having crashes with explorer.exe Does anyone know how I can fix this Faulting application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 10.0.22000.527, time stamp: 0x59dc9944 Faulting module name: ucrtbase....
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Explorer crashes on TaskView

Since a few days my explorer crashes and restarts everytime I open the TaskView (Win + Tab). Anytime else the system is stable. It shows the same behavior when using the task bar button right next to ...
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Laptop freezes every time I click on taskbar

I deleted some of my %temp% files earlier today in my other laptop, and after logging in again the taskbar is frozen. Every time I try clicking on the taskbar a black screen flashes and screen remains ...
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Why does explorer.exe hang and crash nearly every day?

Why does explorer.exe hang and crash nearly every day? I'm using Windows 10 21H1 and it also happened on version 20H2 and 1909. Looking at Event Viewer doesn't give any significant information or ...
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Windows 10 - explorer.exe repeatedly restarting after update to 20H2 - flashing taskbar

upon login my taskbar flashes for about 2 minutes before then starting properly. It appears to be explorer.exe repeatedly crashing. After looking at the dmp it's crashing with callstack: Unhandled ...
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Windows 10 (1909) 'explorer.exe' crash loop

'explorer.exe' keeps crashing after I restart my PC. This does not happen when I turn it off and back on. I tried performing a clean boot, but it didn't help. Everything seems to be fine in safe mode. ...
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File Explorer crashes when i select a file

Ok so i have tried EVERYTHING like EVERYTHING. I searched ALOT to solve this problem and seems like nothing works. I dont really wanna reinstall windows since i have did it recently and now this ...
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Windows 10 File Explorer and other programs not responding properly and are really slow

Whenever I open a folder, Explorer crashes or stops responding, sometimes with the screen going black with only a cursor, coupled with everything on my PC becoming really slow (deleting/copying takes ...
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