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Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1 Explorer.exe The Oddest Issue Ever
Howdy Brink,
Sorry to bother you directly this time but my custom to contact you @ this web once every couple of years with some another very much particularly odd win7 issue seems remain same
Anyhow this another issue details follow:
A pretty aged but yet nice for my purposes Dell Precision M4300 laptop with Win7 Ultimate SP1 x64 Genuine OEM (all MS updates to the moment applied, except 3 ones for Win10 upgrade & telemetry skipped) that operates perfectly all the time continuously 24 hours per day. Here I wanna stress that I'd likely never meet/experience this issue if I'd turn this laptop off or restart it at least once in 2 days.
In short - explorer.exe is like-crashed, or anyway stops operate normally, w/o any sign of error or issue in win7 logs every 2-3 days of continuous win7 operation when a size or explorer.exe process reaches some 100MB size. Then explorer.exe process shall be restarted manually to get back to normal.
Also it's likely in some way linked to use of the mouse right click actions, mainly a right click on shortcuts in Win7 Recent Items menu.
Well it's a long lasting issue - so I've studied abnormally many options around - change various drivers incl. video, disable many context menus, etc etc with same result. This issue persists.
Pls first find 2 attached snapshots taken of Process Explorer utility with a view on explorer process size under normal operation and a couple of days later at the moment of the issue.
Pls 2nd find the attached snapshot of a sample of a folder broken view after this explorer issue occurred. Another 1st visible effect of this issue is no normal popup menu when right click at all.
Pls don't bother on attached files names.
Any ideas?
Thanx a lot.
P.S. Actually I have a pretty lot of info and files incl. the explprer.exe dumps concerning this issue. So pls just prompt any way to dig into
UPDATE: oops, sorry - here is a minidump of explorer.exe taken by Process Explorer v16.12 utility today right after z moment of explorer.exe like-crash. a full dump file is around 450MB as u could see at the 2nd snapshot attached.
Last edited by laidbacktokyo; 07 Sep 2016 at 13:27.