saltynay
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Hey guys its been a long time.
PC: ASUS UX31
Current OS: Windows 8 pro
Old OS: Windows 7 Home
Antivirus: Microsoft security essentials on Win7 and Win8 avg free
My windows 7 screwed up 6 months ago and can't remember what i was doing beforehand but no major changes (driver installs ect.). explorer.exe would hang on extended usage. Quick fix was to put the pc into high performance mode and the 5 seconds to find the file bumped upto 20 seconds. I therefore expect its a resource allocation issue and as I was moving to win 8 just let it be and used search to find files.
Yesterday I finally got around to moving to Windows 8 using the upgrade utility and online download. Now explorer.exe hangs pretty much after the first click in its interface.
All other functions are fine across all other programs I can save, open, search etc. but copy and paste will stop if explorer hangs (closing the folder and leaving the copy to its own little moving box would prevent the hang in win 7) . The issue is not linked to right click its any click in the explorer will cause it to hang and restart. It also occurs if i use arrow keys and key shortcuts to navigate.
Google'd the issue for 30 minutes and found this fix:
FIX: The Explorer.exe process stops responding (hangs) when you use Windows Explorer that hosts a shell extension that was created by using MFC <--- which did nothing.
I am doing uni exams at the moment so plan to crack on with this tomorrow. Revising without an explorer for folders is great fun
.
PC: ASUS UX31
Current OS: Windows 8 pro
Old OS: Windows 7 Home
Antivirus: Microsoft security essentials on Win7 and Win8 avg free
My windows 7 screwed up 6 months ago and can't remember what i was doing beforehand but no major changes (driver installs ect.). explorer.exe would hang on extended usage. Quick fix was to put the pc into high performance mode and the 5 seconds to find the file bumped upto 20 seconds. I therefore expect its a resource allocation issue and as I was moving to win 8 just let it be and used search to find files.
Yesterday I finally got around to moving to Windows 8 using the upgrade utility and online download. Now explorer.exe hangs pretty much after the first click in its interface.
All other functions are fine across all other programs I can save, open, search etc. but copy and paste will stop if explorer hangs (closing the folder and leaving the copy to its own little moving box would prevent the hang in win 7) . The issue is not linked to right click its any click in the explorer will cause it to hang and restart. It also occurs if i use arrow keys and key shortcuts to navigate.
Google'd the issue for 30 minutes and found this fix:
FIX: The Explorer.exe process stops responding (hangs) when you use Windows Explorer that hosts a shell extension that was created by using MFC <--- which did nothing.
I am doing uni exams at the moment so plan to crack on with this tomorrow. Revising without an explorer for folders is great fun
.
