Hanging Windows Explorer and Office

Amccor said:

All of myMicrosoft Office applications are slow and seem to hang up.

I use Windows Explorer all day, dozens maybe hundreds of times, to browse to files. It hangs up a lot. If I reboot, the problem ceases – for a few days, but then returns. I unzip and extract files frequently, using Windows Explorer, not a 3rd party application. Could there be a problem with that?

Also, I use Outlook frequently and notice it hanging quite a bit. Excel and Word hang also.

I have checked processes in task manager during times of hanging up and there is nothing unusual – no large process, no suspected malware (although I am not sure I would recognize it.). We run Malware Bytes and Vipre malware protection.

Initially I thought it was a network problem but the Windows Explorer hanging occurs also when accessing the C drive.

My computer is a Dell T1650 and has 32GB ram, 64 bit windows 7, and and Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2 @ 3.5 GHz

Hi Amccor,

Welcome to Seven forums.

Please check this link below which should be helpful in resolving this issue:

Troubleshooting Steps for Windows 7

Kindly update your system specs here by following this. Keep us posted with the results so we can advise you further.

How is the health of your drive?

Under event viewer under system, do you have any disk related error codes?

Event Viewer - Open and Use in Windows 7