So about an hour ago I was using VLC to record sections of video. For whatever reason, one of the clips I saved became corrupt, and I was unable to delete it (got stuck on "discovering items"). I rebooted windows explorer and started getting the error "the remote procedure call failed," so after troubleshooting that and finding no helpful solution, I restarted my computer.
Now windows explorer has gone to complete shit. When I open the control panel, no icons or anything show up. Some folders load with the green bar at the top but never finish. Some folders show file names, but not icons. All the favorites and subfolders in the bar on the left have disappeared, leaving only "Favorites" "Libraries" and "Homegroup" without anything in between.
And I STILL can't delete this corrupt file.
Tried running disk check. Issues still happening. Sometimes I can see icons, sometimes not. Sometimes favorites are gone, sometimes not.
Though some seemingly random assortment of issues persist after a restart no matter what, trying to get rid of the corrupt file exacerbates all the problems. Just now I was experiencing no apparent explorer problems so I tried to rename the corrupt file to a .txt extension in 7-zip as suggested elsewhere, but 7-zip got stuck and wouldn't let me close it without task manager. Now all the explorer problems are back in full force.
Now windows explorer has gone to complete shit. When I open the control panel, no icons or anything show up. Some folders load with the green bar at the top but never finish. Some folders show file names, but not icons. All the favorites and subfolders in the bar on the left have disappeared, leaving only "Favorites" "Libraries" and "Homegroup" without anything in between.
And I STILL can't delete this corrupt file.
Tried running disk check. Issues still happening. Sometimes I can see icons, sometimes not. Sometimes favorites are gone, sometimes not.
Though some seemingly random assortment of issues persist after a restart no matter what, trying to get rid of the corrupt file exacerbates all the problems. Just now I was experiencing no apparent explorer problems so I tried to rename the corrupt file to a .txt extension in 7-zip as suggested elsewhere, but 7-zip got stuck and wouldn't let me close it without task manager. Now all the explorer problems are back in full force.
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