Windows 10: Windows file explorer freeze for 30 seconds

Hello, I have regularly, but randomly on my windows file explorer the following behavior: I create a folder, and then I have to wait 30 seconds before the folder is created, and the file explorer gives me the hand. During this time the file explorer is unusable. The 30 second delay reminds me of a timeout... It is likely that it comes from an application that I installed, but how to detect which one? I looked with Process Explorer, and here are the dlls loaded by the explorer.exe process which are not from Microsoft...Thank you in advance for your help. Regards Jean Pierre

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

File explorer is broken

Every time file explorer is opened, the program freezes. Specific symptoms:

• "Saving As" in any software brings up the file explorer window that freezes for several seconds.
  
• Right clicking on desktop crashes Explorer, the taskbar stops working, everything resets.
  
• Opening up a file explore window freezes for several seconds (Fixed by defaulting to This PC instead of Recents)
  
• Dragging and dropping is a nightmare. Often freezes mid drop, have to wait with finger pressed on drop location for several seconds.
  

Basically anything that activates explorer gives me grief.

Things I tried to fix the issue.

1. SFC scan (no problems found)
   
2. every iteration of DISM.exe (no problems found)
   
3. Updating windows.
   
4. Processor scheduling is set to Programs.
   
5. Automatically manage paging file sizes for all drives option is checked.
   
6. Disabled all startup application in Task Manager.
   
7. Clean Boot (msconfig) disabling all non microsoft services (problem persists)
   
8. Booting is safe mode (problem persists)
   
9. Restarting explorer obviously does not work.
   
10. Launch folder windows in a separate process breaks it even more.
    
11. Unchecked Show recent files etc.
    
12. Cleared File Explorer History
    
13. Changed default text size.
    

None of the solutions proposed above work.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

File Explorer freezes when hovering the cursor over the "create" section.

Hi Alex,

To better assist you, we'd like to know the following:

• Did you make any changes prior to this issue?
• Are you getting any error messages after File Explorer freezes?
• What troubleshooting have you done so far?

In the meantime, we suggest you restart Windows Explorer by following the steps below:

• Type Task Manager in search bar.
• Click Task Manager.
• On the pop-up window, under Windows processes, scroll-down to
  Windows Explorer.
• Right-click Windows Explorer, and click Restart.

We look forward to your response.

Thank you.