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Jacobaw
Iron Contributor
Jun 18, 2026

File Explorer Crashing or Freezing Frequently on Windows 11

I am gotting frequent crashes and freezing issues with File Explorer on my Windows 11 system. It often becomes unresponsive or closes unexpectedly, especially when browsing folders or using network d...
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cmftblynu
Copper Contributor
Oct 13, 2026

Mine is new with 26h2.  The taskbar is what freezes... nothing works except rebooting and of course the windows icon won't work so I push the physical windows key on the keyboard and that works, rebooting usually fixes it.  This 26h2 has been a nightmare for me.  It completely screwed up one of my computers, I can no longer access it via the network by its name, only by its ip address... I even had microsoft remote in and look at this... their response... reformat your computer.

Microsot has become a joke.  Literally every single update causes terrible issues, then they turn around and tell you to reforat your computer, becuase they don't know how to fix what they screwed up.  This is their OS if they don'r even know how ro fix their own OS problem (that they introduced), then we need to seriously reconsider who we are putting our trust in...