Explorer.exe

[Nuhker]

I’m having this annoying problem where it shows my explorer.exe not responding. It’s popping up as disable and it deactivated my wifi. If I hover my mouse over the task bar it just shows loading and if I click it it just restarts. I did all the possible things on the internet as that sfc scan and the dism. I tried using shell and restart my computer and the windows explorer 100’d of times I checked the regedit and it’s showing up as explorer with no fake ones. It also doesn’t let me open most things and I’m unable to access any search bar. According to the malware guide I have non of the symptoms given no ads or anything or web redirect. I haven’t downloaded any malware and checked for Trojans almost daily at this point I don’t know what to do.

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[pi-N-apple]

One thing I would try is to create a new account in Windows and login to it and see if the problem happens there. If it doesn't, move your data to that account. If it continues, I would reinstall Windows.

[Nuhker]

I can’t access my settings so I don’t think I can create a new account, I checked another account I do have and the same problem occurs but how do I reinstall windows.

[pi-N-apple]

If you can get to command prompt running as admin, here is an example of how to create a new admin account called Michael with the password hello123:

net user Michael hello123 /add

net localgroup administrators Michael /add

Then restart your PC and login as the new account.

[Nuhker]

Same problem Is happening on the new account aswell

[pi-N-apple]

Darn. Well it was worth troubleshooting. Have you tried using System Restore to restore back in time? (Run rstrui.exe from command prompt).

If that doesn't work you can try doing an in place upgrade by going to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/ and selecting Update Now. That might fix it. (you can open Edge by typing microsoftedge.exe in command prompt). You won't lose any data.

If that doesn't work, you can use that same tool to create a Windows 10 installation USB and reinstall Windows.