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mrlucid
Jan 22, 2026Copper Contributor
Windows Explorer is just lagging, and not showing icons, and crashing
If I select "Date" or "Type" windows cursor shows loading?? and then it stalls. sometimes icons will show and then sometimes it just crashes with no icons. If I try to sort files in any way...
Lauradosh
Jan 26, 2026Iron Contributor
Run the System File Checker (SFC) tool to scan and replace corrupted system files. Open Command Prompt as an administrator and type sfc /scannow.