What To Do When Windows Explorer Gets Hanged or Not Responding

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Trouble:

It is quite a common problem that Windows Explorer hangs. Windows explorer hangs due any reason like heavy memory resource hogging programs and or any other windows problem. It will give a warning saying

Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience

windows-explorer-hanged

You can restart your windows explorer when it goes to not responding state and continue to work as usual.

 

Let see how can you restart windows explorer windows process ( Explorer.exe ) and continue working when its got hanged.

Fix:

 

Follow the procedure below to restart windows explorer

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to start task manager

task-manager

2. Click the Process tab and locate Explorer.exe

explorer-process 

3. Right click on Explorer.exe and select End Process Tree ( after clicking end process tree you will see nothing other than task manager )

end-process-tree

4. Now Click on Applications tab, and click the button which says New Task

new-task

5. Type Explorer.exe and press Enter or Ok button

create-new-task

You will see the windows explorer coming back with all the programs intact which were previously running, in most of the cases this procedure can save a lot of time and effort.

We this could be helpful to you. :)

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danial says, October 19th, 2008   

In My Task Manager,Several processes are running named svchost.exe due to which my CPU usage Becomes 100% And The Computer Slows Down.

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Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed says, October 29th, 2008   

Thank you , good post.

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Kill Process or Change Priority When A Program Goes Not Responding | TroubleFixers - All about fixing computer troubles says, December 9th, 2008   

[...] this point of time you are left with no other option to end the program, so you will either need to kill the process via windows task manager. But killing or stopping a process via task manger can be quite cumbersome and complex for a normal [...]

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swaraj pal singh says, February 4th, 2009   

how do u know every thing

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swaraj pal singh says, February 4th, 2009   

hi there i want to know that is all svchost.exe process are virus i am using vista ultimate 32 bit and i have many process that are named svchost.exe some are they all virus if i end that process then my computer ask me to restart is required

thanks

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Afgan Malik says, February 6th, 2009   

Hi,
I ask many of question about my problems,
and now i am just thinking that how can you know the answers of all my questions.
just amazing

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siddhu says, March 16th, 2009   

HI

whenever i open my task manager it disperses quickly i cannot do end task or end process please help

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MASOOD Popal ZAI says, April 26th, 2009   

Hello dear friends
i have a big problem with folder Option when i checking the show all files option its gon a reversed again and again how can i remove this or how can i remove viruses from usb drives

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Bill Hiznay says, June 8th, 2009   

when I open my documents. It does not fully load. Then it flashes windows explorer not responding. help. I have tried reg cure, driver cure. restarting. It still does the same thing.

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Zell Dintch says, October 27th, 2009   

hi, i got a problem. when i right click on explorer the explorer then get crash. on task manager i found message not ressponding. it always happen. i can’t copy and past and right click menu dont wanna show. how to fix it?

i truly confuses about that.

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