My Computer (explorer.exe) keeps searching for Drives


  1. Amber Wells
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    windows 7 64bit
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    My Computer (explorer.exe) keeps searching for Drives


    Hi experts, im experiencing a strange problem on my windows 7 64bit laptop.
    While working on my PC for several minutes when i click/open "My Computer" it keeps searching for my hard drives non stop (endlessly). I have a external drive Seagate and it runs well. I am able to browse the Seagate external and play music, etc... but this issue even happens when I have the external drive unplugged from my laptop. It just keeps searching non stop.

    However its not freezing or hanging up and i can still open my drives/folders using run command and after sometime it will work just fine again.
    Thanks in advance.
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  3. Amber Wells
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    windows 7 64bit
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    Video of problem:

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