Couple days ago noticed I was getting that green loading bar of death if I selected "Computer" from the Start icon. So once you clicked "Computer" to bring up the drives, it'd load indefinitely, and in most cases not even list the drives. This does NOT happen in "Safe Mode" for whatever reason.
1st tried end task-> Explorer in Task Manager, then "new task" another Explorer, no dice. Checked the drives and they are set to general content. Tried system restore to a point before this was happening. The restore took, but problem persisted. Found a registry tweak that involved creating a folder that was supposed to disable the deal with the thumbnails or whatever Windows does with sorting. After adding the tweak, I rebooted the system and it worked perfectly, with lighting fast drive opening. All my games and such are on B: drive, so I regularly go there via "Computer". Everything was opening fine.
Anyways, the fix lasted a day. No idea what's going on. Other than PC being on all day, haven't done ANYTHING that could have changed this? Explorer will stop responding now, and last time it froze up when resetting page allocation. Couldn't even open Task Manager (which is rare) and was forced to do a hard reset as nothing was responding. When I had Autoruns open, I opened the explorer instance that shows a previous comparison save from a year ago. That box froze for a good 5 seconds. Dunno if it's an issue with the search indexer or what.
Also, a quick look into Autoruns is showing missing Windows NT stuff under the header:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32
5/22/2015 7:47 AM
msacm.ac3acm File not found: ac3acm.acm
VIDC.FFDS File not found: ff_vfw.dll
VIDC.LAGS File not found: lagarith.dll
VIDC.X264 File not found: x264vfw64.dll
VIDC.XVID File not found: xvidvfw.dll
HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32 7/12/2015 2:39 AM
msacm.ac3acm File not found: ac3acm.acm
VIDC.FFDS File not found: ff_vfw.dll
VIDC.LAGS File not found: lagarith.dll
VIDC.X264 File not found: x264vfw.dll
VIDC.XVID File not found: xvidvfw.dll
Are these .dll important? No idea why they are missing as I never mess with Windows files.
Very frustrated as it's probably something really simple, but it's not actually crashing and producing a dump or anything. Both partitions are rather full 150gb on both with around 30 gb free on each. Dunno if that'd be an issue or not. Just strange how one minute it's opening drives 100% OK then bam, green loading bar and non responsive Explorer. Never had it this bad before. And again, Safe Mode isn't effected by it and everything open 100% in Safe Mode.
1st tried end task-> Explorer in Task Manager, then "new task" another Explorer, no dice. Checked the drives and they are set to general content. Tried system restore to a point before this was happening. The restore took, but problem persisted. Found a registry tweak that involved creating a folder that was supposed to disable the deal with the thumbnails or whatever Windows does with sorting. After adding the tweak, I rebooted the system and it worked perfectly, with lighting fast drive opening. All my games and such are on B: drive, so I regularly go there via "Computer". Everything was opening fine.
Anyways, the fix lasted a day. No idea what's going on. Other than PC being on all day, haven't done ANYTHING that could have changed this? Explorer will stop responding now, and last time it froze up when resetting page allocation. Couldn't even open Task Manager (which is rare) and was forced to do a hard reset as nothing was responding. When I had Autoruns open, I opened the explorer instance that shows a previous comparison save from a year ago. That box froze for a good 5 seconds. Dunno if it's an issue with the search indexer or what.
Also, a quick look into Autoruns is showing missing Windows NT stuff under the header:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32
5/22/2015 7:47 AM
msacm.ac3acm File not found: ac3acm.acm
VIDC.FFDS File not found: ff_vfw.dll
VIDC.LAGS File not found: lagarith.dll
VIDC.X264 File not found: x264vfw64.dll
VIDC.XVID File not found: xvidvfw.dll
HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32 7/12/2015 2:39 AM
msacm.ac3acm File not found: ac3acm.acm
VIDC.FFDS File not found: ff_vfw.dll
VIDC.LAGS File not found: lagarith.dll
VIDC.X264 File not found: x264vfw.dll
VIDC.XVID File not found: xvidvfw.dll
Are these .dll important? No idea why they are missing as I never mess with Windows files.
Very frustrated as it's probably something really simple, but it's not actually crashing and producing a dump or anything. Both partitions are rather full 150gb on both with around 30 gb free on each. Dunno if that'd be an issue or not. Just strange how one minute it's opening drives 100% OK then bam, green loading bar and non responsive Explorer. Never had it this bad before. And again, Safe Mode isn't effected by it and everything open 100% in Safe Mode.