File explorer not responding in Windows 11. It opens up but becomes unresponsive when you click anywhere.

Anonymous
2024-01-20T21:46:04+00:00

I tried every solution available on the internet to make file explorer responsive. However, it is not working. I open up file explorer, it opens. Now, when I click any folder or any icon or try to do search, it becomes unresponsive. I have spent days trying to fix this and I am very frustrated with this. Can any Samaritan

help me with this?

Kind Regards,

Sajan

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-11T21:48:08+00:00

    Yes! Rebuilding the index did the trick! Thank you - I have been living with a slow file explorer for months!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-08T17:48:02+00:00

    Sir, THANK YOU SO MUCH. I work in IT and someone was having this issue. I searched all around the web and this is the only place I found the answer to fix my issue. This is what the internet was made for!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-25T15:32:30+00:00

    MY MAN!

    I have done so many things and reading your comment i was like .. no way this gonna work but well what can I lose ? lets try it ..

    And it worked lmao.

    Thank you so much!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-24T09:18:38+00:00

    For anyone else facing this issue, I found a YouTube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AZGegx9ews.

    I didn't want to reset my PC, so I opened up command prompt as admin. Ran the command 'sfc /scannow', let it do it's thing, and then restarted Windows. After the reboot, File Explorer was up and running again. Not sure if this will work for everyone, but it worked for me.

    thankyou! it actually helped me a lot .

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-12-21T00:46:22+00:00

    I feel your pain.

    My advise is to to download Explorer++ from any reliable site, preferably the official site that you can find on this link Explorer++ Site

    It's a tiny application that does the same job as Windows Explorer, but way better.

    Windows Explorer won't work properly for some reason, and I don't want to go through another Windows 11 re-installation again. Troubleshooting helper isn't helpful at all......

    It really uses really RAM. With several tabs.

    Sadly, an alternative Windows Explorer relies on Windows native functions.

    So, to sum up : this application is handy. It's better that Windows Explorer, faster, etc...

    I'm a happy Explorer++ user, not someone paid to promote this application. So, as someone who spends a lot of time on computers (I'm a software dev), I like to work on a computer where I feel at home.

    Any one who is familiar with "crunch time" should know how I feel !

    I'm sure we will talk again about new VS, .Net, etc

    Best regards,

    Aurel

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