Windows 10: My file explorer is running very slowly, behaving strangely, and when I try to open image...

So starting today, my File Explorer has started running slowly and acting strangely. It is displaying a lot of thumbnails for images and videos as blank/white and when I try to open image files, it freezes completely. I have tried everything I can find to try to fix it myself but now I am out of ideas.So far I have tried rebuilding the thumbnail/icon database, repairing registries, various disc repair options, etc. I'm not sure what to try from here. The File Explorer is displaying the green load bar and it is very slow and never completely finishes loading. Upon first opening, I can access fo

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Something strange just started to happen in file explorer

This is very strange and if anyone has any ideas why it is happening and how to fix it I would appreciate it very much.

It doesn't seem to be happening system wide, not a problem in my email program or as you can see on my desktop, only in file explorer. here are 2 screenshots one of a portion of my desktop and a portion of file explorer. As you can see all the tails in p's.y's etc. are cut off on file explorer but not on my desktop.

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I've tried to follow your steps in this post but when I press win+s I don't get a cmd prompt. I get the following the top image below. some blue side wndow opens, however if I type in the search boc cmd I get the cmd prompt in the second image but I don't know if that is an elevated cmd prompt??? if it is a elevated cmd prompt I will continue and follow your steps.

Thanks

 

File explorer slow with loading thumnails and files

Step by step guide:
1. Hold Win+r to open run
2. Type msconfig and hit ok or enter
3. Click Services
4. Navigate to Windows search (you can sort the list in descending alphabetical order)
5. Uncheck tickbox
6. Click apply then ok
7. Select to restart now

Hope this works for you.

 

File Explorer not opening via pinned Taskbar icon on Windows 10

Hi Leon,



Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community. I understand the inconvenience you faced. I apologies for delay in reply. I will certainly help you with this.

I suggest you to unpin the File explorer from the task bar and re-pin the File Explorer and check If issue is resolved. If issue persist, I suggest you to follow the below given steps and check if it helps:



I suggest you to run System file checker. System File checker (SFC) scan is done to check if there are any corrupted system files that could be causing this issue. Kindly follow the below given steps:

• Press Windows key + X, select
  Command prompt (Admin) to bring up elevated Command prompt.
• In Command prompt type sfc/scannow and press enter.
• Restart the computer.

If no corrupted system files were found in the previous state, then I suggest you to try the following steps:

• Open command prompt by pressing Windows key + X and selecting “Command prompt admin”.
• In command prompt, type the following commands and press Enter after each command:

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

• Close the command prompt and restart the PC and check if it works.

Hope this information helps. Please post back with the results, we will be glad to assist you further.

Thank you.