1. Reload Internet Explorer Windows 10
2. Reinstall Windows Explorer Windows 11
3. Reinstall Windows Explorer On Windows 10

Feb 28, 2019  If you can't find Internet Explorer on your device, you'll need to add it as a feature. Select Start Search, and enter Windows features. Select Turn Windows features on or off from the results and make sure the box next to Internet Explorer 11 is selected. Select OK, and restart your device.

I have updated from Windows 7 Ultimate x64 to Windows 10 Pro x64 using Media Creation Tool.

After some weeks when I'm clicking on the start button nothing happens and the whole status bar becomes unresponsive. After trying to restart explorer.exe from Task Manager explorer.exe fails to initialize. It just shows the start button, Cortana and the search bar, TaskViewer (if that's how it is called) and the Action Centre button.

Any ideas?

I tried running:

• sfc /scannow and no errors were found
• chkdsk /f and no errors were found

A full system restart seems to do the trick but after some time like a few hours it stops responding again.

My configuration:

• CPU is Intel i5 4690K OC-d to 4.5Ghz
• GPU is AMD Radeon HD 7750 Saphire 1Gb GDDR5 Edition

EDIT: After some GOOGLE SEARCHING if i try to run from Task Manager C:Windows i can actually open a window. The start bar isn't responding though and there are still no desktop icons or wallpaper.

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3 Answers

My brand new PC running Windows 8.1 had a problem with Explorer.exe not responding, and it persisted after I upgraded to Windows 10. In my case, explorer.exe didn't stop running, but the task bar was no longer updated (clock was behind, notification icons out of date), I couldn't use alt-Tab to move between windows and holding the mouse cursor over icons in the status bar didn't display the associated window. Finding 'Windows Explorer' in Task Manager, right clicking and selecting 'Restart' would resolve the problem, but only for a little while.

I created a System Restore Point then used regedit to delete the explorer.exe subkey from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionImage File Execution.options and haven't had the problem since then.

I posted this mainly to clarify that the explorer.exe 'folder' referenced above is in fact a subkey. I puzzled over the nomenclature for a moment before realizing what TermoZour meant, and thought I'd post this to help others who might misunderstand.

After deleting the explorer.exe folder in regedit from

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionImage File Execution.options

explorer.exe never crashed after that.

EDIT: After a few months the same problem started again and this fix no longer works for me, but i will leave this answer here in case anyone else has the same problem.

EDIT2: I managed to fix it for good by reinstalling Windows 10 from a setup disk that you can download from their website. I selected to keep my data, and after the installation everything worked fine.

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Since you upgraded from windows 7, there are a lot of installed components which could be causing this issue. Usually renaming the file to [original name].bak stops the crashing. The problem is how to know which is the component. Sometimes looking in the Event log might reveal it, but sometimes the crash happens in Explorer.exe and you need to dig deeper to find out which component it is loading which is causing it to crash. I wrote a post here on how to use Process Monitor to help figure it out.

It seems you already resolved this by reinstalling windows but I hope this helps others with the same problem.

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Reinstall Windows Explorer Windows 11

That's so strange to use outdated and full of bugs IE.

Unfortunately some websites only support IE as they were built there.

Try this:
Search in Settings for Manage optional features. In the window that opens, select the option to add a feature and select Internet Explorer 11 from the list. You'll get several UAC prompts through this process, but I was able to successfully test re-adding it through this method.

As stated It's not in the features list.

do you see a list of optional features under
Manage optional features - (+)add a Feature
if the list is blank, you have to enable WSUS in group policy to bypass Admin control on Windows updates

Tested and works

Thanks for the links. Ultimately I went with the reinstall. Backed up all of the users data first of course.

Reinstall Windows Explorer On Windows 10

place the following line in a file called restorehealth.ps1
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers Where-Object {$_.InstallLocation -like '*SystemApps*'} Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register '$($_.InstallLocation)AppXManifest.xml'}
then place the following in a batch file
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
powershell -file %~restorehealth.ps1 -executionpolicy bypass
@pause
place the batch file in the same directory as the restorehealth.ps1 file. Run the batch file as an administrator.

Thanks for the response cjgoggin. Can you explain what the command does in depth? I may need it in the future so I'll go ahead and save it.
Thank you,

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