Windows 10: Windows Explorer crashing/no progress bar

In the last few weeks I've had problems with Windows Explorer getting progressively worse with tasks. I've noticed it's mostly with any external hard drives, however, it's not just 1 hard drive or 1 particular port. I have 2 USB and 1 thunderbolt and it occurs on all of them. Problems encountered are:-when trying to drag and drop files from one window to another or quick access-When trying to copy and paste files -progress bar on transfer does not load, crashes or never disappears-moving files take much longer than expected if at all-I have to hit refresh in windows explorer to even see if it

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file explorer crashes

Effective Way to Solve the File Explorer Crashes Issue

You can try the following steps:

1. Tap down the Windows button first to activate the search bar.
2. After that, in the search bar type control, and then click on the top-most search result, that is on Control Panel.
3. Next, in the search bar type file.
4. Now, from the search results click on File Explorer Options.
5. Then, click on the Clean button.
6. Lastly, click on Apply and then on OK.

References: https://www.****/knowledge/solved-windows-10-file-explorer-crash-easy-way/

 

PC crashed/hung, now always getting green progress bar in Explorer

I wonder if anyone can advise. On Friday my PC hung/crashed (I think it was while opening an nzb file), and I had to restart by right-clicking the start button, left-click was gone. Now every time I open windows explorer and every sub-folder I go into, I have the green progress bar loading slowly, and files only being available to access slowly. Is there a way to fix this?

P.S. I'm not even sure what that progress bar bar is exactly, it's to do with indexing folder contents?

Windows 10 Pro, 20H2.

 

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.