Windows 10: File Explorer & Task Bar Unresponsive

Whenever a second user logs in on my machine, they do not have access to FIle Explorer and the Task Bar is unresponsive. I am able to fix the issue by forcing the other account to sign off in the User portion of the Task Manager. If the initial account then logs back in, it encounters the same issue with the Task Bar.


To sum up: only a single signed in user has access to the Task Bar/File Explorer at a time.


What do I need to do to fix this issue?

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Windows 10 File Explorer not responsive on Task Bar.

After upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10, the File Explorer has become unresponsive on the Task Bar. After clicking the File Explorer on the Task Bar the Desktop refreshes but I never get the list of files. The only way I can access my files is to right
click on the Windows icon at the lower left of the screen, then select File Explorer.

I've tried unpinning the File Explorer from the Task Bar and then re-adding it. This did not solve the problem.

One additional piece of information, I have four accounts on this PC. Two of the accounts have the problem I described above. The other two accounts work correctly.

Thanks for your help.

 

Windows Explorer goes unresponsive (task bar, new folder renaming)

Hi,

I have a fully updated windows 10 version. My file explorer almost always goes unresponsive when i try to rename a new folder and I have to restart through task manager to try renaming again, usually to no succes. Occassionally my task bar also goes unresponsive
and i have to use alt+ctrl+del to get to my task manager to restart the windows explorer process.

It's been going on for several weeks if not months and I'm getting really tired of it. I cannot find errors in my services logs.

Any suggestions that are not:

run sfc

remove startup programs

use ccleaner

fixes intended for thumbnails or 4k monitors (not applicable)

If you need more information, let me know and how, and i'll provide it.

Thank you.

 

how to successfully pin files to the task bar

I use to be able to drag and drop files onto the task bar and they would reside withing the file list for that program. Since the recent upgrade it appears that I am not able to pin a file to the program on the task bar. Suggestions?