Windows Explorer inconsistencies

[Weegee]

Hey all it's been quite a while since I've posted here. It's heartening to see y'all are so lively after all this time

Anyways...Sometimes when I turn on my PC windows explorer loads, but is almost completely unresponsive. While I can manage applications and snap works fine, the windows button, cortana, calendar and notification button will just make a clicking animation but not actually work. Restarting explorer with the restart feature as well as closing it and loading it back up only half-restart it, only loading the windows, cortana and notification button but whenever i mouse over explorer I get the loading/not responding circle.

Has anyone else ran into this issue? Is there a fix or any suggestions? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks for your time

-Jacob

[scottyseng]

8 hours ago, Weegee said:

Hey all it's been quite a while since I've posted here. It's heartening to see y'all are so lively after all this time

Anyways...Sometimes when I turn on my PC windows explorer loads, but is almost completely unresponsive. While I can manage applications and snap works fine, the windows button, cortana, calendar and notification button will just make a clicking animation but not actually work. Restarting explorer with the restart feature as well as closing it and loading it back up only half-restart it, only loading the windows, cortana and notification button but whenever i mouse over explorer I get the loading/not responding circle.

Has anyone else ran into this issue? Is there a fix or any suggestions? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks for your time

-Jacob

 

You might try turning off Fast Startup for Windows 10. It caused Windows Explorer on my PC to turn unstable much like yours as well.

You can find the steps in my post here:

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/535271-computer-takes-long-time-to-shut-down/?do=findComment&comment=7108979