Windows 10: Extremely Unstable file explorer after big file move

Here's my issue. File explorer has become very unstable and takes a very long time to respond after opening certain folders many of which have very little data in them after I moved a large number of files from one folder to another on the same drive HDD not SSD. It was something like 40GB, split between a years worth of downloads. Whatever went wrong, it really went wrong. I've repeatedly scanned my machine for corruption using CMD, event tracker, and more. Nothing I've done has seemed to help. But the issue is now presenting itself in other places as well. Downloads will get stuck at 100

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File Explorer extremely slow and unstable.


So I just took part in the Windows 10 Insider Preview a couple of days ago, and I have to say, Windows 10 is a great step up from Windows 8, they did an excellent job so far. There's just one problem: File Explorer is extremely hard to use. Not only does the file explorer freeze all the time (even on folders with almost nothing in them), when it does freeze, it goes back to the top of the folder when it unfreezes.

What I mean is that I can be half-way down a 260-count file folder, like this:





Then it will freeze, and after it unfreezes, it goes back to the top of the folder, like so:





Doing simple tasks such as moving, copying, renaming, deleting and even scrolling and clicking causes File Explorer to freeze, sometimes even when it's idle!

And what's weirder is that the glitch doesn't happen when your opening a file for a specific program (say you click 'open' in Word and you get the 'Open' dialog box where you can pick a file).

I posted this over to Windows Feedback too, but I don't think it supports user comments, so I'm posting here to see if there's any fix. If there's any fix for this, let me know. It's been annoying me for a while now.

 

File Explorer extremely slow and unstable.


THANK YOU!!! Simple fix for a VERY annoying problem. Worked for me 100% as well.



Originally Posted by micjulian


Hi everyone,

I found this on the net. It solved it for me. I'll put the link here:
How to Disable Quick Access in File Explorer on Windows 10
Hope it will for you too.

Regards,
Mic

 

File Explorer extremely slow and unstable.

I removed some applications off of my computer and used ShellExView to disable all of the Shell Extensions that weren't made by Microsoft (just NVIDA didn't work), and I restarted my computer to make sure changes were saved, but File Explorer was still as slow as usual. If it makes any difference, I took a snip of the Shell Extensions I disabled: