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
    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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-13T16:27:45+00:00

    File Explorer took 23 seconds to become responsive on my high-end Windows 11 machine. The many solutions offered in this thread so far had no effect. The solution was to uninstall the Google Drive desktop app.

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