Whenever I right click on any file and hover the cursor over "open with" my explore just hangs and requires a restart from task manager.
This problem just came out of no where because I made no changes to the system nor downloaded anything prior to this happening. One night everything was fine and then the very next day after waking the system from sleep mode I noticed all the desktop icons were white sheets. After rebooting the system and trying to continue some work on a image file the explorer would just crash the moment I clicked on the file. Right clicking and hovering over "create new folder" also caused explore to crash. A discord user I spoke to said reinstalling video drivers solved the issue for them so I tried that. I uninstalled my GPU drivers in safe mode then reinstalled after a reboot. I can now right click and create new folders but "open with" still crashes explore.
I've also tried changing display options,
online restore health,
sfc /scan,
ran virus scans,
disabled menus in shellview, and uninstalled the few programs that were on the list.
rolled back to several weeks old system restore points,
deleted bags in regedit,
removed windows 10 photo app,
Ran in safe mode,
ran CCleaner,
Checked hard drive health and physically removed the drive that bad sectors.
updated windows,
Everything else functions without issue. Movies and software run normally. Everything else works fine.
Is there any explanation to what is causing this?
This problem just came out of no where because I made no changes to the system nor downloaded anything prior to this happening. One night everything was fine and then the very next day after waking the system from sleep mode I noticed all the desktop icons were white sheets. After rebooting the system and trying to continue some work on a image file the explorer would just crash the moment I clicked on the file. Right clicking and hovering over "create new folder" also caused explore to crash. A discord user I spoke to said reinstalling video drivers solved the issue for them so I tried that. I uninstalled my GPU drivers in safe mode then reinstalled after a reboot. I can now right click and create new folders but "open with" still crashes explore.
I've also tried changing display options,
online restore health,
sfc /scan,
ran virus scans,
disabled menus in shellview, and uninstalled the few programs that were on the list.
rolled back to several weeks old system restore points,
deleted bags in regedit,
removed windows 10 photo app,
Ran in safe mode,
ran CCleaner,
Checked hard drive health and physically removed the drive that bad sectors.
updated windows,
Everything else functions without issue. Movies and software run normally. Everything else works fine.
Is there any explanation to what is causing this?
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