Windows 10: Windows Explorer Crashing and other issues

Today, my computer began to act strange. I often can not click on any taskbar or other explorer menu icons, and explorer.exe will keep crashing and restarting. I have rebooted several times. My ANSYS Fluent software also stopped working. No idea what is going on -- I suspect my GPU may have issues. I also had a blue screen the other day while flying in FS2020 hence the gpu suspicion


Error log for explorer:

Description

A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

Faulting Application Path: C:\Windows\explorer.exe



Problem signature

Problem Event Name: AppHangB1

Application Name: explorer.exe

Application Version: 10.0.19041.488

Application Timestamp: b1a44bf9

Hang Signature: 82d0

Hang Type: 134217729

OS Version: 10.0.19041.2.0.0.256.121

Locale ID: 1033

Additional Hang Signature 1: 82d0c813ebb0ae4e4c743b2353003377

Additional Hang Signature 2: f3e8

Additional Hang Signature 3: f3e866357d3424fd0dd363e3513cb925

Additional Hang Signature 4: 8423

Additional Hang Signature 5: 8423397822b4d63cc4291e4cda147816

Additional Hang Signature 6: 7369

Additional Hang Signature 7: 736913511b8abd304eed14803e3324e0



Extra information about the problem

Bucket ID: 5e39d11be9188923ab39299dc5a4cd0a 1961644870299077898





Blue Screen:

Description

A problem with your hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.



Problem signature

Problem Event Name: LiveKernelEvent

Code: 15e

Parameter 1: 30

Parameter 2: ffffe4837d53f1a0

Parameter 3: ffffe4837e573cf0

Parameter 4: 0

OS version: 10_0_19041

Service Pack: 0_0

Product: 256_1

OS Version: 10.0.19041.2.0.0.256.121

Locale ID: 1033

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Windows Explorer Replacement?

are you running IE7? if not that wouold be my first suggestion,upgrade to ie7 that can fix some stability issues with windows explorer

 

Windows explorer crashing

Hi,

I am having the same problem as the OP in this thread.
Windows Explorer crashes whenever I open my external HDD or thumb drive in explorer..

I have tried the fixes listed in the above thread and I am getting the same error message as 'ktadie' (post 16). I think this is because I am running Windows 7 Professional. Windows explorer crashes when I open my 'Films' folder on my brand new 2tb external HDD. I have about 300 .avi files in this folder and some of the .avi files are several years old.

In short I believe I need the same fix given by 'Wile E' (post 7) but updated for Windows 7 Professional.

Thanks in advance.

 

Microsoft Internet Explorer renamed to Windows Internet Explorer ?




Since version 7 of the world`s most popular web browser - Microsoft Internet Explorer was silently renamed to Windows Internet Explorer.Such a step from Microsoft is not a surprise since Internet Explorer is part of the Windows operation system for a long time.Obviously Microsoft corp. wants to state that Internet Explorer is already considered as a part of Windows and not as an external browser (remember the IE and WMP law issues last year!?).