How to Fix File Explorer not Responding or Frozen By Reseting & Restart in Task Manager in Windows
Jul 7, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video, I'll show you how to fix
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this file explorer. Sometimes it can be
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hanged. It can not respond or it can
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become frozen. So there is a trick that
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you can do. You can open your task
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manager and uh right inside the task
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manager there will be this process here
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of file explorer. If you see
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this is the explorer window. Sometimes
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it becomes not responding and to fix
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that issue simply right click on this
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and uh you will see this option of
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restart.
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So if you see right click this on this
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process and just click this option and
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it will automatically restart your
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explorer and it will reset this. So it
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doesn't require any restart of your
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computer. it can just it resets the file
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explorer window and then automatically
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adjusts adjust itself. So if you face
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any sort of issues simply open the task
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manager window you can access it from
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the
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start menu and inside start uh task
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manager you will see this windows
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explorer
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or
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both of this. So simply click any of
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this right click and you will see this
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option restart and simply click this
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restart button to actually fix all these
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issues and it will automatically restart
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and fix all those issues. So in this
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easy way you can do this using your task
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manager. It will fix all the issues
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related to file explorer if it is not
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responding or it's frozen. You can do
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this process inside your Windows 10
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Windows 11 machine. So thank you very
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much for watching this video. Uh please
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