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I need to find what's randomly restarting Explorer.
Recently, I've been having Explorer seemingly randomly restarting itself. Usually when I select and right click a bunch of files to copy, move etc.
Two recent things that happened were a bit of annoying malware that got past Defender. Backing up a couple of restore points and scanning with Malware Bytes and others seems to have got rid of it. Nothing I've scanned with finds anything out of sorts. I ran rkill after doing the restore point restore and it found nothing.
The other was I setup Hyper-V (after the malware incident) to run a second Win 10 install. But that's not been running when Explorer restarts itself.
Just got done upgrading to build 1809 and whatever is buggin it, that didn't cure the problem. I was rounding up some .m4a files to run through Format Factory to convert to MP3 when *blip*. Explorer windows and taskbar all vanished then the taskbar came back with all the quick launch icons but on the right, it only restores tray icons for things that launch at startup. Any running program that has a tray icon, it doesn't bring those back.
OS is 10 x64 1809 on an AMD FX6100 with 8gig DDR3, GPU is nVidia GTX 1050.