Windows 10: How do I delete a file that won't open and crashes my files explorer when I click on it...

I am trying to delete a file which I believe is corrupted, but it has my files explorer crashing and "not responding" anytime I try to do anything. I can't even delete it because no matter how many times I hit delete it does nothing at all. It was on my SSD, I can't seem to get it fully off of that or my laptop. I deleted every part of the file I can besides the one that won't do anything.

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File Explorer STILL not opening

Greetings,

File Explorer has not been opening for at least a month. I have followed Microsoft's given steps in Fix
File Explorer if it won't open or start multiple times with no success. Has anyone found a solution?

Thanks, Matt

 

Windows Explorer crashing due to large files

thats wierd... iv never had a large file crash explorer before....


and i have files ranging upto 80GB...

 

Windows Explorer crashing due to large files

It's an .exe right? Explorer probably read its icon (to a cache) when it was a "small" file and now call the quits when it finds "such a big" file.

If you want to delete it, use the console after killing explorer, you can run the console from TaskManager (Application -> New Task -> cmd). You might want to try copy the file to a different location (copy, not cut) and see if explorer can handle it in the new location before deleting it.