Explorer.exe slowdown and lockups

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  1. Persons Can Wai
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    Windows 7 x64
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    Ok, you're never gonna believe this, but it's happening again! I feel like that moment in the 1995 Casper movie when the female villain dies and comes back as a ghost and is like "The bitch is back!"

    I recently hooked up a new modem/router, and guess what? Ever since it has been connected, I have been having the same problems - My Computer is searching forever, thumbnails won't load, and I can't right click. I just had to restart explorer.exe again. This makes no sense though. How could this be affecting it? I mean seriously, the issue went away for what seemed like GOOD before. Sometimes it would show it searching, but then it found the items (and not an eternity had to pass either). I guess I just officially opened the issue back up!
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  3. Layback Bear
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    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       New #12

    How full is your "C" drive?
    Used Space/Free Space
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  4. Persons Can Wai
    Posts : 50
    Windows 7 x64
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       New #13

    Surprisingly it's pretty good at the moment: like 94gb left. A week or such ago it was like 5-18gb.

    Could this be related to temperature? I have my computer on almost 24/7. I can't put it to sleep either, it basically corrupts my hard drives.
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  6. Layback Bear
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       New #14

    I recommend testing your hard drive. You should be able to find something for your hard drive here.

    7 Free Hard Drive Testing Software Tools
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  7. lehnerus2000
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    W7 Ultimate SP1, LM19.2 MATE, W10 Home 1703, W10 Pro 1703 VM, #All 64 bit
       New #15

    Try (temporarily) disabling your NIC.
    Maybe there is a problem with your NIC driver or settings.

    You could also try (temporarily) disabling the advanced sharing options.
    Network and Sharing Center > Advanced sharing settings
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  8. Ztruker
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    Layback Bear, that's a great link to the 7 HD tools, thanks.
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  10. Persons Can Wai
    Posts : 50
    Windows 7 x64
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       New #17

    Sorry I haven't been able to get back to you guys. I just have had a lot of in real life things I NEEDED to do before this. So I've been working on that.

    The issue is happening now as we speak. Disabled network adapter, still happens. A couple days ago I also I updated the driver too (Windows is horrible at automatically finding updates). It went from an old 2012 version to a more recent 2013 one.

    I'll run the hard drive tools later.

    Do you think this could be a side effect of overheating or running one's computer too long, like without breaks?
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  11. lehnerus2000
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    Persons Can Wai said:
    Do you think this could be a side effect of overheating or running one's computer too long, like without breaks?
    It's possible that some component is responding to "heat soak".

    In my experience, it is (usually) a dodgy solder joint that is responsible for heat-related problems.
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  12. Layback Bear
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    Ztruker said:
    Layback Bear, that's a great link to the 7 HD tools, thanks.
    Your very welcome.
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  13. Layback Bear
    Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
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    Persons Can Wai said:
    Surprisingly it's pretty good at the moment: like 94gb left. A week or such ago it was like 5-18gb.

    Could this be related to temperature? I have my computer on almost 24/7. I can't put it to sleep either, it basically corrupts my hard drives.
    Did you every run a hard drive test. Unless you have been removing things from the hard drive going form 5-18 to 94 gb is unusual.
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