Category Archives: Tutorials
How To Fix Windows 10 File Explorer Crashing
Fix Windows 10 File Explorer crashes: Clear Quick Access history by navigating to File Explorer options, selecting Privacy, and clicking Clear.
There is a Windows 10 feature in File Explorer called “Quick Access”. This feature allows you easy access files and folders you frequently use, either it be locally or on the network and OneDrive.
Quick Access can make your workflow faster by making it so you don’t have to navigate to a file’s or folder’s that are buried deep in a directories file system. However, on occasion you may want to delete the Quick Access history to help maintain some privacy or quicker access or just resolve the explorer crashing issue
Clearing Windows 10 Quick Access History
- Click Start or Cortana’s search field and type: file explorer options and hit Enter or click the option at the top of the search results.
2. Now in the Privacy section make … Read the rest
Resolving Failed VSS Writer Issues
Look for messages in your Windows Event logs.
When VSS fails you will always get a corresponding message in your Windows event log.
- Right click on ‘My computer’
- Select ‘Manage’
- Expand the ‘Event Viewer’ node
- Look in the ‘Application’ message node for error messages relating to ‘VSS’, ‘Shadow Copy’ or ‘VolSnap’.
- If you find any messages then these with give you an ‘Event ID’ and sometimes a ‘Result Code’ or ‘hr’. These two pieces of information can generally pin point the cause of your VSS failure. Try Googling the Event ID(s) and Result Code(s) for more information if the steps below do not resolve the issue.
Make sure that the VSS service isn’t disabled
Changing the startup type of the VSS service and rebooting can often resolve issues.
- Right click on ‘My Computer’.
- Select ‘Manage’.
- Select the ‘Services’ tree node.
- Right click on ‘Volume Shadow Copy’
- Select Properties
- Change the
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