Windows Explorer

I am experiencing quite a few issues with Windows 10 right now. First is with the search box and Cortana. Sometimes when I open the search box and type, it just goes to the loading graphic with the dots at the top and a white background. No matter how long I wait, there are not search results...

When I plug the phone into my laptop to take off some pictures, it automatically goes to charge. How do I get it to show the contents of the phone. I tried looking in WE but it is not there Pat

Just got my new laptop today, and so far it's crashed and restarted about 5 times. It starts with Windows Explorer freezing up, Microsoft Edge going black, and then soon after goes to BSOD and quickly restarts. I've checked the event viewer and this is the error message that it shows: SCEP...

I want to sort many many files in a folder by creation date/time and then group them by dates First one is okay to get in Windows 10 but when I group them, Windows 10 only groups them in like "A long time ago" Can you please suggest some settings in W10 itself or some other software which can...

I have Windows 7 Home premium - Following a recent Windows update (I think) when in Windows Explorer, and I double click a FOLDER in the right panel, Paint Shop Pro opens. - When I right click on a folder, the list is now headed with "Browse using Paint Shop Pro". Paint Shop Pro also...

On my home machine yesterday just happened to notice on C drive 2 strange folders. they reappear even though you delete them. norton/malwarebytes paid and cyberfree ransomeware are on the machine tdsskiller shows nothing. the ransomware program I have keeps saying something is found and it is...

I have a interesting question and was wondering if you could give me some advice or tell me what is going on you see I have a Laptop with Windows 7 on it that I use just for messing around online, surf the web, watch youtube videos just regular stupid things but lately it started acting a bit...

My computer starts typing 1 and 0 everywhere I go. (any Internet page, or in-game chat). It keeps opening Windows Media Player and Windows Explorer. This happened only once, 5-6 days ago and I thought it's gone but it isn't. Anyone can give me some tips?

Shows I'm connected to my WiFi but Windows explorer will not open

A few days ago, I had a problem with one of my USB drives and I ejected it while the computer was restarting (one of the apps I had on my drive became unresponsive so I had to restart). Afterwards, when I connected the same USB drive into the USB port, the file explorer became unresponsive and...

Basically My keyboard is typing the wrong characters, but only in windows explorer (I'm in Windows 7 by the way). The weird thing is that this only happens to all symbols except for *, (, ), &, $, %, !, -, _, +, =, ;, and :. All other programs, including ones from microsoft, work fine. I tried...

I've installed a game on my computer, and then strange things started to happen, like some strange chinese app opened (uninstalled it), and there is a strange drive on the windows explorer I dont know how to delete it, and probably it is a virus UPDATE: I've discovered one thing, this is...

Whenever my laptop starts up r wake up from sleeping, I become unable to use my trackpad to click anything unless I go to task manager and restart Windows Explorer

So, one I was on my laptop and then when I opened my control panel, the desktop and the hotbar (Windows Explorer) went black, reopened, and didn't open control panel, now it is doing the same with file explorer, and as a gamer, this is madness.

I get 100% disk usage on every process, I open after some seconds it normally starts using ram but sometimes as, I copy larger files it gives me 260mb speed for 5 to 10 sec but again then windows explorer starts using disk usage. I want to know why my laptop does not use ram much as, I have 16...

Hi, I have an Asus laptop (g60jx I think..) running windows 7 and windows explorer keeps crashing I can barely boot it up now, with 9/10 restarts only getting passed 'starting windows' and ending at a black screen SOMETIMES it will let me log in, but even most times then it will have a 'safe...

Hi, i have been having this error for a month or so now, where i cant right click any folder or desktop item without getting the "windows explorer has stopped working error" Ive been reading a lot of stuff and ended up downloading "shellEX" viewer program. Im using Windows 7 64-bit btw. However...

I have a mac air copy ultrabook running win 7. It worked fine till the SSD failed. I replaced the SSD and did a fresh install of win 7. It now runs extremely slow. Windows explorer comes up normal but Each task you select takes one to 2 mins to pull up the page. Can anybody help me?

I currently have a turtlebeach headset, and a couple of days ago this was working fine untill my microphone stopped working, i thought it was the headset being faulty, so i went into the store and got a new one. But the problem was still happening.. I went into my sound options and realised that...

I have used CCleaner for a long time on old XP rig. I'm now using 8.1 on new rig (Less than 1 week). CCleaner by default wants to delete these items; Windows Explorer - Thumbnail Cache System - Windows Log Files Utilities - Windows Defender (Destination files appear to be in results, not the...