Hello,
I am running Windows 8.1 and have Avast anti virus software. My computer is only a year old and it runs perfectly but a fair few months ago I noticed that all of a sudden when I tried to open a folder on my hard drive it would stay open for no more than a second or two and then close immediately before I could click anything. All the folder contains is ordinary photos. I asked for advice from my friend who is fairly savvy with this sort of stuff and he 'extracted' the photos and created a new folder and made a copy of them in the new folder for me. After this everything was fine but I am now starting to experience this when I access other folders! These folders are also ordinary folders with nothing but photos in them. When I open the folders I can see them all in there as normal but I cannot click anything, it closes immediately. Has anyone experienced anything like this before? I keep all software up to date and run regular virus scans. Nothing suspicious in task manager etc. Just to clarify, the photos were totally accessible before and were created on the hard drive that they are currently on. I copied the folders to my external drive and I can access them from there.
I am running Windows 8.1 and have Avast anti virus software. My computer is only a year old and it runs perfectly but a fair few months ago I noticed that all of a sudden when I tried to open a folder on my hard drive it would stay open for no more than a second or two and then close immediately before I could click anything. All the folder contains is ordinary photos. I asked for advice from my friend who is fairly savvy with this sort of stuff and he 'extracted' the photos and created a new folder and made a copy of them in the new folder for me. After this everything was fine but I am now starting to experience this when I access other folders! These folders are also ordinary folders with nothing but photos in them. When I open the folders I can see them all in there as normal but I cannot click anything, it closes immediately. Has anyone experienced anything like this before? I keep all software up to date and run regular virus scans. Nothing suspicious in task manager etc. Just to clarify, the photos were totally accessible before and were created on the hard drive that they are currently on. I copied the folders to my external drive and I can access them from there.