Windows 10: "This app can’t run on your PC" when trying to start explorer.exe

Hello


I am having an extremely annoying problem where every time explorer.exe fails, I am completely unable to run it again from the task manager and I'm forced to restart my computer.


I have tried running task manager as an administrator and starting the process from CMD, but it will just show the big blue banner with the message, asking me to "check with the software publisher"

I am running Windows 10 Enterprise 64bits


Thanks in advance

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Hi Phil,

There are several reasons why you are having issues running .exe files on your Windows 10 laptop. To assist you better, kindly answer the questions below:

• Have you made any changes to your laptop prior to this issue?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?
• What is the error message that you received when running .exe files?

Regards.