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huge_sacred_potato_3000
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Jul 16, 2026

File Explorer is broken after July 2026 Update

Recently updated my system on July 16, 2026. Applied the latest available update as July 2026 cumulative update.

After that I face with very annoying bug(s) regarding the file explorer.

The bug: the explorer.exe(all file explorer windows) process freezes for some seconds, then gets halted and restarted.

How to produce the above bug? using either of the followings:
1) selecting(single click) any image file (jpeg, webp, ...) (but selecting some other file types like text, pdf, or ... are okay)
2) right-click on a file (although right-click on drivers in my pc works as expected, or a folder, but crash on any file)
3) double-click to open a zip file

 

Hiding the preview panel in file explorer didn't help.

Please fix it, very annoying.

In my machine, I have the following applications which may have some context manu:
PDF-X
7-zip
Media-player classic (codec), and km-player
MS one-drive
Python, Matlab, VSCode

Thank you for your time and consideration

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