One of perhaps the strangest idiosyncrasies of the Windows platform is the association of the desktop, the digital workspace that users see all the time, with explorer.exe, the program in charge of ...

This issue usually occurs if the explorer.exe system file has become corrupted or some process interferes with its smooth functioning. You could try the following suggestions to resolve the problem: ...

Microsoft has rolled out the Windows 11 February cumulative update, KB5077181, and early coverage paints it as a corrective release aimed at both security and day-to-day stability.

Does File Explorer work fine one moment, then suddenly freeze, restart, or vanish altogether? These crashes aren’t random—they’re usually triggered by issues with File Explorer itself, its settings or ...

If File Explorer crashes whenever you click on Properties in the right-click context menu of a file or folder in Windows 11/10, read this post to learn how to fix the issue. The ‘Properties’ option ...

Microsoft has released the newest Windows 11 Build 23541 to the Dev channel insiders today. As usual, the new build brings in plenty of changes and improvements, as well as bug fixes. Microsoft, today ...

If you’ve been experiencing an annoying bug in Windows 11 where File Explorer keeps crashing for no apparent reason, rest assured that Microsoft says it’s finally fixed. Spotted by Windows Latest, ...

Tiny cache corruption can imitate faulty graphic driver issues.

What do you do when a directory of images crashes explorer.exe when it's generating/loading thumbnails, either in Thumbnails view or Tiles view? What causes it? A corrupted image file? A bad hard ...