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Hello everyone, New member here. I bought a new computer at Fry's, when I make a new folder on the C drive I get the blue-circle-of-death and Windows Explorer locks up. Is this a know bug in 8.1? I went to the MS website and downloaded all the updates for Windows, then rebooted the machine...

Looking at my Windows Firewall allowed programs I found 2 entries called Windows Expolrer - note the spelling of explorer. One of them is ticked for Home/Work, the other for Public. Why are there two instances of this 'file' and more importantly, why can't I delete them? I've searched the...

Today i turned on my pc and the explorer.exe error appeared, i refreshed the screen and the icons appeared , but the start button didn't work , i tried to make troubleshoot but nothing... the worst part is that i can't acces the internet. Is there a way to star windows recovery\reset without the...

Every 60 seconds or so, I am seeing a flickering in File Manager, and it freezes momentaraly. I suspect it is a video driver problem and am running the latest driver for my nVidia GTX 460 Is anyone else experiencing this ?

I know, installing a windows 8.1 Explorer extension on windows 10 probably wasn't a good idea. Still, after installing "StartIsBack+", my windows Explorer does not function without it. Upon installing, the extension creates a DLL and some resource files. When I delete the DLL, my windows...

Hello everyone, I'm having a very strange problem (atleast it looks like one for me): when I bootup my computer, only the wallpaper shows. No taskbar, no icons. But the strangest part of this is that when I open up the Task Manager, I can clearly see that there's explorer.exe proccess. If I...

If you want to move the c:\Users\user dir to the SSD (D:) can you use the location tab in the properties of the explorer and click the move button or must you use the technique described in http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/87555-user-profile-change-default-location.html The first method is...

I'm Not going to pretend to know what I did Because I have searched Google, Yahoo and ask for an answer to the error I have created. I will Now Explain the Problems I have experienced with this phenomenon. Game Save files missing two different versions of windows explorer[WE] Saved files of...

Hi there, I need to delete a Windows folder (which is not in use and not on the C-drive) but every time I try to do this I am informed that I do not have permission to do so. I have tried changing the owner of the folder to Administrators/my user name in explorer, but then when I try to delete...

I attempted to create a soft symbolic link to a folder, but the link is not working. In Explorer, the "keybrd_lib" link does not look like a folder (screen shot below). When the link is double clicked, an "Open with" dialog opens. Here is how I made the symlink from the command line, run as...

hello everyone , for some reason windows explorer's search tool stopped working. here's a folder before I attempted to search and here's what happens after I try to search for something literally , NOTHING HAPPENS It won't search =,( please help =,(

Some change or update to Windows 8.1 Professional has caused Explorer to become incredibly slow. Right clicking a folder leads to a circular rotation cursor and a wait from 10-20 seconds before the right-click pop-up menu appears. Clicking on the arrow to the left of a folder leads to another...

Hi Guys Hope u r fine am facing differnt problem regarding saving user setting.. e.g when I open explorer, its not maximised, i maximise it and close and reopen, again not maximised... 2nd if i change folder view, close explorer, reopen explorer, folder view is not saved what i selected at each...

It would appear that some Win 10 users are having issues with update KB3020114. Microsoft have posted an official solution on the Windows Insider Hub: ref: Insider Hub found on Windows 10 Tech Preview

Hi, I use windows 7 64bit. I want to add "xdelete" to context menu of windows explorer. What is xdelete? Its function is exactly the same as preexisting delete menu, So that if I select some files or folders and click them with right mouse button and press X, it will say "are you sure you want...

Hi, I've got a Seagate 2TB external drive for backup. When I backup files and click on the drive it just says 'this folder is empty'. However, if i search for a file or directory it appears. I did read something to the effect that Windows 7 fails to show the files if a drive is very large but I...

Greetings everyone. Recently I've noticed that I'm having an issue that explorer.exe crashes when I right click inside "My PC" to be specific here:

Anyone know what this is about? I get this Error message then my Win Explorer stops working. then eventually BSOD. Afterwards windows wont boot. A friend mentioned to re-install disks, however I didn't get them with this computer. anyone? Thanks ZkingD Problem signature: Problem Event Name...

Hi Guys, I have heard good things about this forum so I thought I would join. Unfortunately I have been having a few issues over the last day or so. Basically evertime I open a folder in my internal back-up drivers it seems to intermittently boot me out and closes the window so I end back...

So for the past couple days I have been having problem with windows 7 and explorer, Images are icons and not thumbnails. I have the folder options checked to NOT show icons just thumbnails. Now I have NO thumbnail cache.db files, I deleted them with glary utilities since disk cleanup does not...