Windows 10: Explorer suddenly started working like "tab-mix plus". Stressful

Well almost but not as neatly or controllable as it decided to start opening everything while exploring files in a new window and also started forgetting the sizes and positions of the last opened file/window.

No apparent rhyme or reason.

When exploring files in Explorer, recently it decided to start opening most selections in a new window and would place them so when hunting thru the path of files you'd have many volumes in windows opened with the close window button placed where closing them was inconvenient.

Doing that would vaporize your file path and make is likely you'd have to start your searching from the beginning, more often than not.

The 'up' and 'back' arrows in the windows seemed to mostly stop working like they had been for quite some time.

I have no idea where to find what may have inadvertently changed, due to my oversight or something being broken, to affect this annoying behavior.

Can anyone offer any suggestions, direct me where to look, or possibly have a quick ten cent answer for my million dollar question?

It is greatly interfering with my work flow and reducing my machine's smooth and taken-for-granted capabilities and smooth logical behaviors.

Thank you

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Internet Explorer has suddenly stopped working

Hi June,

There are several possible reasons why your Internet Explorer suddenly stops working on your Windows 10 computer. It can be because of another program causing conflicts with Internet Explorer or some system files are corrupted.

For us to better assist you with this concern, we need to ask a few questions:

• Which version of Internet Explorer are you using?
• Were there any changes made prior to this issue?
• Are you getting any error messages? Can you send a screenshot?
  

For steps to help resolve the issue with Internet Explorer, you can check the article on this

link.

Looking forward to your reply.

Thank you.

 

Start Menu, Start Bar, Notifications and Alt+Tab not working

Hi all,

I have had this problem for several weeks now. I think it may have been introduced during an Update in December.

The symptoms of the issue include:

• Start menu is broken
  • Button can be hovered over (animation), but cannot be clicked or right clicked.
• Windows Explorer is very slow to open
• Alt + Tab does not work
• Certain applications break
  • Including Slack, Discord and Steam. Maybe others too but these ones just will not open or are totally frozen on whatever "Frame" they have last rendered.
• The notifications panel (bottom right next to the clock) will not open
• The calendar will not open
• Any settings menu that follows the Windows 10 theme will not open
  • Example "Settings" opens but sits on the blue window with the cog in the middle, never loading fully.

To try and resolve this I have taken many steps.

Steps taken:

• Opening the command line and typing sfc /scannow
• Creating a new Windows user copying all of my files across, deleting the old user and signing into the new user with my microsoft account.
  • As executed by Support Agent 1.
• Repaired windows downloading the Windows 10 iso as executed by Support agents 2 and 3.
• Ensured Windows 10 is up-to-date with the latest version.
• Ensured all other drivers are up to date.

The issue is still persisting and at this point it's looking like I may have to format the drive and reinstall everything - not something I want to do as my internet if fairly slow for downloading all my programs, and I also use this PC for work so would
rather not have to potentially take time out of my work schedule.

Does anyone have any suggestions that might fix this, or will Windows be patching this issue?

Thanks

 

Mixed Reality random black screen (Lenovo Explorer)

Hi,

Thank you for posting your concern. There are several reason why this is happening. It could an issue with outdated driver, a connection problem or an issue with hardware itself. We would like to confirm some information to help you better.

• When did this issue start? Have you made any changes to your computer before this issue started?
  
• Is this issue only happening if you are starting to us Steam VR?

Meanwhile, you can perform the following steps:

• Update driver. Go to Device Manager > Mixed Reality Devices > right click on the driver and update it.
  
• You can also change the resolution or the Supersampling. Please head over to this
  link
  for the instructions.

We'll be waiting for your response.