Having problems with File Explorer in Windows 10 build 9879? here is a solution
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Windows 10 Tech Preview build 9879 appeared to be accompanied by a series of stability issues affecting the file explorer, causing frequent crashes when trying to use it.
These problems should have been fixed with an update that Microsoft released a few days ago, but unfortunately when trying to install it I get an error (80070005)that prevents the process from completing. Because of that, many users have been searching the Microsoft forums for how to solve this problem, and it seems that a solution has finally appeared, which we detail below.
The objective of the procedure is to be able to install the updates released by Microsoft to resolve browser instability. To achieve that, you have to uninstall 4 previous updates that seem to be conflicting with the new update. Their names are:
We can uninstall them by going to Classic Control Panel (not the PC Settings application), then clicking on Programs, and on Installed Updates. There we will be shown all the updates installed so far, and to find the ones we need we can use the search box in the upper right corner There you have to copy and Paste the name of the corresponding update, then select the result that appears and click Uninstall."
There are 2 things to keep in mind. First, to increase the chances that the cheat will work, you should uninstall the updates in the order in which they are listed here. Second, and most important, you don't have to restart your computer until you have uninstalled all of them
Once this stage is complete, we restart the system, go to Windows Update (in PC Settings or in the Control Panel, it works the same), look for updates, and install all that appear. Then we restart again and search for updates, until no new updates appear to be installed. Once that's done we should stop getting hangs with file explorer
The alternative: activate the Start Screen
In case we do not get good results with the previous steps, there is another procedure that has worked well for many users: reactivate the Start Screen instead of the Start menuAchieving this is very simple, you just have to right click on the taskbar, select Properties, and then go to the Start Menu tab... there you have to uncheck the first checkbox that says > "
Done that we will have a start screen identical to Windows 8.1, and the instability of the file explorer will probably disappear.
Clearly neither of these 2 procedures is ideal. Updates should install normally without having to uninstall previous updates, and we shouldn't have to disable the Start Menu to use the file explorer either, but being a Technical Preview we were already warned that we could run into things like this.
To those who read us and use Windows 10 Have you been able to solve the problems using these tricks? Or do they still persist in some cases?
Via | Paul Thurrott
