File Explorer keeps crashing/restarting/flickering

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  1. ilyakol
    Posts : 41
    Windows 10 Professional x64
       New #21

    dalchina said:
    Good approach- got a software problem? Get new hardware...
    Kill two birds with one stone lol. But now I'm missing my SSD ...can't win lol.
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  3. tommybertsen
    Posts : 6
    Windows 10 Pro x64
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    Hello again. The problem re-appeared... I start to think that, windows, for some unknown reason, removes or misses admin priveleges from each FOLDER. I cannot be sure, but trying to kill explorer.exe process, and restarting it as admin, it does not solve the issue BUT, the first file I open, doesn't cause the explorer crash. AFTER I click on a different folder, the same issue appears. The explorer opens in a second instance, and it crashes even if I copy something. It has been 11 months I didn't have this problem, and now again, I have.
    It is so frustrating. The most frustrating is that MS seems to know it but doing absolutely nothing about it.

    I am curious, if some piece of hw in combination with sw, causes the problem. I have pending bios update (since forever), and I am willing to try it out, as soon as "sping update" comes out.
    My girlfriend's PC is almost the same (not the same though), and runs windows 10 from 2016 without any problems...

    I just can't understand what the hell is this all about..
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  4. ilyakol
    Posts : 41
    Windows 10 Professional x64
       New #23

    tommybertsen said:
    Hello again. The problem re-appeared... I start to think that, windows, for some unknown reason, removes or misses admin priveleges from each FOLDER. I cannot be sure, but trying to kill explorer.exe process, and restarting it as admin, it does not solve the issue BUT, the first file I open, doesn't cause the explorer crash. AFTER I click on a different folder, the same issue appears. The explorer opens in a second instance, and it crashes even if I copy something. It has been 11 months I didn't have this problem, and now again, I have.
    It is so frustrating. The most frustrating is that MS seems to know it but doing absolutely nothing about it.

    I am curious, if some piece of hw in combination with sw, causes the problem. I have pending bios update (since forever), and I am willing to try it out, as soon as "sping update" comes out.
    My girlfriend's PC is almost the same (not the same though), and runs windows 10 from 2016 without any problems...

    I just can't understand what the hell is this all about..
    Just for S&G's and posterity I guess...I haven't had the issue since getting my new work hardware and I've never had the issue on my personal PC which is running W10.
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  6. Berton
    Posts : 14,020
    Win10 Pro and Home, Win11 Pro and Home, Win7, Linux Mint
       New #24

    Since File Explorer [and the previous Windows Explorer] is pretty much the core of Windows and the Desktop/screen is Dynamic [always being refreshed], there are times when things running in the background can make changes which in turn redraws the screen. Such things are hard to narrow down and can cause crashes.
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  7. tommybertsen
    Posts : 6
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       New #25

    ilyakol said:
    Just for S&G's and posterity I guess...I haven't had the issue since getting my new work hardware and I've never had the issue on my personal PC which is running W10.
    That worries me the most... I begin to believe that maybe there's a defect, but then again...which is it??? Everything turn out to be normal (memory testing, cpu stressing, I recently changed my PSU etc etc)...

    I wait for spring update to see if this goes away, and if it is not, I will make a new , fresh install from a new ISO, made by a different PC, my mind went THAT far
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