I had this issue with Windows Explorer and was a pain in the ass I couldn't stand any longer. So I did some research in the net and nothing really worked for me so I want to share what did the trick.
How to check if you have the same problem as me:
- Provoke a Windows Explorer hang and then open Event Viewer.
- Go to Windows Logs -> System
- Check if an error like this just happened:
Source: DistributedCOM Event ID: 10010
Description:
The server {1B1F472E-3221-4826-97DB-2C2324D389AE} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.
If you get that, you have the same problem and probably the same solution will work.
What's fucking my explorer?
It's the stupid SkyDrive. The following steps are intended for disabling it, so if you really use SkyDrive, don't continue. But no one uses that shit.
Straight fix:
- Go to your local drive -> Windows -> System32
- Find SkyDrive.exe. Right click, Properties, tab 'Security', Advanced.
- Change the owner of the file from 'TrustedInstaller' to an administrator account that you can use. If your current user has admin rights, just change the owner to your current account.
- Below, change the administrators Access to 'Full control'. Apply and accept everything.
- Now you can rename SkyDrive.exe to whatever like fuckSkydrive.exe, so now it won't work any longer.
Restart your computer and your problem is probably solved.
Other things I did but should not make any difference:
If the above doesn't work, you can try this, but with SkyDrive disabled, this is probably pointless.
- Open Registry Editor.
- Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Skydrive
- There, create the following DWORD entries and set them all to 1.
DisableFileSync
DisableLibrariesDefaultSaveToOneDrive
PreventNetworkTrafficPreUserSignIn
Tell me in the comments if this post helped.
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