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Shaike101
Copper Contributor
Oct 15, 2021

Windows 11 file explorer (explorer.exe) issue

Hi all. seems that after the update every time I right click inside a folder and scroll down the explorer.exe restarts and close everything that's open.   I filtered the events with procmon.exe to...
Application Management
configuration
device management
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SalmanAhmed
Steel Contributor
Oct 17, 2021

Hi Shaike101 , 

 

As per the above situation:

  1. It might be a malware infection in your computer. You can update Windows Defender or any other well-known protection tools and run a full system scan.

  2. Run the System File Checker tool by following these steps:

    Open an elevated command prompt and type the below command:
    sfc /scannow​​

  3. Initiate the Windows Update.
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Shaike101
Copper Contributor
Oct 17, 2021
Hi SalmanAhmed ,
Thank you for your reply.
Checked both sfc and windows defender scan and the result was fine.
I think it's because the windows 11 update, didn't happened in my windows 10 2 days ago..