Everything crashing windows explorer

[sgermopi]

Hello sirs, after I open everything, it starts many problems with windows explorer. When I open a folder, there is constantly the green loading bar that never finishes. Many item thumbnails are gone, and sometimes, it crashes when right clicking a file. It is still broken even after closing everything from the tray, but gets fixed after computer restart, until running everything again. Can you please look into this?

[void]

Please make sure Everything is installed correctly and running as a standard user:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the General tab on the left.
• Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.
• Uncheck Run as administrator.
• Check Everything Service. (Please make sure this is tick-checked and not square-checked)
• Click OK.
• Exit Everything (right click the Everything tray icon and click Exit).
• Restart Everything.

Is Everything busy indexing your drives? Is there anything shown in your Everything status bar?
Are you indexing any folders under Tools -> Options -> Folders.

Is there something spamming your file system?
To view recent changes, please try sorting by Date Recently Changed (View -> Sort By -> Date Recently Changed)

Does the issue persist?

[sgermopi]

It is very confusing, but I think it may be caused by a different program.

[void]

Thank you for your reply sgermopi,

Please try disabling all shell extensions in Everything:

• Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
  /icon_shell_extensions=0
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
• If successful, icon_shell_extensions=0 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

• Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
  /context_menu_shell_extensions=0
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
• If successful, context_menu_shell_extensions=0 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

• Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
  /restart
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.

If this helps with stability, please try re-enabling shell extensions in Everything and disabling individual shell extensions system-wide with ShellExView from Nirsoft.

Please let us know if you find a shell extension causing trouble.



To re-enable shell extensions in Everything:

• Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
  /icon_shell_extensions=1
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
• If successful, icon_shell_extensions=1 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

• Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
  /context_menu_shell_extensions=1
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
• If successful, context_menu_shell_extensions=1 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

• Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
  /restart
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.