Strange issue with explorer.exe, failing to open from other programs

On my laptop, I recently started having the peculiar issue that when I tried to attach files to my e-mails, the "Browse" button that should have opened an explorer window did not open one at all. I tried it with various e-mail accounts and all of them did not work.

Then, I tried using a "save image as" to see if that part of the explorer was also not responding, and it was not. Lastly, I checked another program I had that would need to browse through explorer.exe and it also failed to run. If I just try to browse files regularly by clicking on the folder and looking through them, it works just fine. It's just other programs are not getting through to be able to access the files.

I am at a loss as for what to do about it. The last thing I changed about my computer was updating video drivers, and there's no reason as to why that would have any influence (not to mention the update I did was about 2 weeks before the explorer started acting up). Also, I do want to make it clear that it is not the "browser" at fault, but the "browse" function that connects to my computer. Any and all help would be appreciated.

No, I'm afraid not. I'll go do that real quick.

Sorry about that, I tend to think in association by order. The "No" was in reference to any System Cleaning Software, and the "that" was referring to running Malware Bytes and scannow.

Sorry for the wait, Malware's been running for 20 minutes and scannow is at 50%.

Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.

Malware still goin, but as of yet, 0 issues.

EDIT: No malicious items detected. So, both scans said nothing seems to be out of the ordinary.

Were you able to get this settled?