Windows Vista Windows Explorer is not responding when copying/moving pictures

Restart the program or wait until it responds.

Usually I can wait forever and it will not respond, so I always choose to restart Windows Explorer.

Every evening I shut down my computer for the night. When I boot up the next moring things will generally go smoothly for a while. But if I upload photos from my camera and want to move them to a particular folder, I chose Edit, move to folder, choose the folder, and then wait and wait.... and wait.

It doesn't take long now for me to realize what is happening. It happens at some point or other, every time AFTER my computer has been booted up.

Windows explorer is not responding.

Once I restart Windows Explorer everything works just fine, but this should not be happening in the first place, and as it's been going on for months now, I am getting just a bit tired of it.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this problem?

 

Thank you Evan,

I have downloaded the file and will give it a go tomorrow. Too late right now
After I am finished, I will let you know what happens.

Sandie

 

OK, another question here.

How do I know which shell extensions to shut down? There are SO MANY!
I am afraid that if I shut them all down, my computer will stop functioning.

I see that you can filter the type of extensions you want to see, but I don't know which I should choose to be shown so that I could safely shut them all down and then gradually restart them one by one.

If I were to shut down every one the program showed me, I will be sorting through them for months before possibly finding the culprit. Any suggestions??

Thank you.

 

Hello Evan,

Thank you for that information. I will give that a try tomorrow, and then go on from there as best I can. This might take some time if I don't find the culprit quickly. I was stunned when I saw the total list of extensions. There were so many! LOL

I'll get back to you later, and again, thank you so much.

Sandie

 

Hello Evan and Arie,

I think I have found the culprit.
I isolated all of the non-microsoft extensions and shut them all off.
The crash happened every time I tried moving files from one folder to another, and it happened on a few other occasions as well, but always when moving files.
I believe the culprit was Eraser shell extension. The moment I enabled that one again, tried moving a few files, and Windows Explorer crashed. Until that moment everything worked as it should. So I am going to leave that one disabled and go from there, and see how things go. So far all is well.

I will now mark this problem solved, and thank you both very much for your continued help and suggestions.

 

Me too, and believe me, I appreciate it so very much.

Sandie