Windows 10: Explorer.exe suddenly spikes in CPU usage and all the windows flash for a second and the...

As the title says, I am running into this problem where the system freezes for a second when I am doing anything on my laptop.







I opened the taskbar to investigate why this is happening and everytime the freeze happens, Windows Explorer suddenly jumps to the top of the CPU usage list (15-20%) and some windows flash for a second before returning to normal. This happens once every minute or so and I am not really sure why.







I removed my Avast antivirus and am relying on Windows defender. I even ran a malware check but nothing showed up. I have also run memory diagnostics and sfcscannow to no avail. Help!

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Hi. Thank you for your answer. I tried all your suggestions, but nothing helped.

Clean bot seems helped at first but no after some hours spikes came back and now spiking more often with every hour of PC working.

Same happened also without clean boot.

Any other suggestions what to try ?

Just to let you know that I worked with Win 7 before with even more programs installed than now and I did not switched off my PC for weeks and CPU usage was lower in general not to talk about any spikes in CPU, newer noticed anything like that...

Thanks