Windows 10: COM Surrogate?

I downloaded a JPG file and resized it, I have done this a million times. After saving it ballooned to 300MB and would not let me upload to the site I usually do, go to delete the file and it says cannot delete file because of COM surrogate. I stopped COM surrogate and then deleted file and it worked. But then every PNG file in that folder would not open because of bitmap something. Any idea on what this could have been? I was able to delete all of those files, but no I am scared to try to open anything else?

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Error Message: COM Surrogate has stopped working

Hi Bernard,

COM Surrogate is a process in Windows 10 that is in charge of showing thumbnails and similar information. Issues with COM Surrogate
is probably caused by MacType or codecs and other COM components installed by various software, like some versions of DivX or Nero.

We would like to know some information to better assist you:

• Have you done any changes on your computer prior to the issue?
• What specific activity are you doing when the error message come up?
• What specific troubleshooting steps have you tried so far? for us to know what troubleshooting steps we can provide next.

Please check the details of the errors using the steps below and provide us with a screenshot:

• Press Windows key + S.
• Type View all, then click on View all problem reports Control panel.
• Right-click on a few of the "COM Surrogate", "Stopped working" errors.
• View technical details.

We will wait for your response.

 

COM Surrogate

Hi,

To better address your concern, kindly refer to the support article below:

• Fix Problems with COM Surrogate on Windows 10.
  

For more information about COM Surrogate, visit this
link.

Let us know if you need further help.

Best regards.

 

I have neither COM Surrogate in TASK MGR nor DLL files...

I have the same thing,COM surrogate and dll not listed,weird that some people have it and others don't. I turned off 'Always show icons never thumbnails' as someone said this may help but it didn't.