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Update: the drive seems to work after plugging it into my laptop's built-in USB port. It shows the decrypting screen and everything and after copying all the contents to a larger 4TB drive, they seem to be intact as far as I can tell.

Hey guys, So I was trying to decrypt a Bitlocker-protected portable drive overnight and it seems to be stuck at 0.4% decryption completed (some other drives were encrypted around the same time but I don't think that should affect it much, right?) I guess either my USB 3.0 hub momentarily failed...

So I tried full system restore in Windows 8 yesterday. The screen went blank after a few seconds and it stayed like that for a minute or so. I figured it stopped working so I decided to just restart from the built-in recovery partition. Note that I have a SSD with the OS can recovery partitions...

I know this is a pretty old thread by now, but I think I may have found the problem: FoxitPDF reader Apparently the company behind it has turned evil and has started injecting malicious software in the app. For example, some users have reported it turned their homepage to that search.conduit...

Ok so after giving up on it and spending another month of using my computer like I normally do, I realized that whenever I play a video with VLC, the crash happens a lot more often, sometimes as often as once every video (usually about 12 minutes long) Using the windows media player doesn't...

Yeah I have AutoCAD 2013 installed. I already uninstalled AutoDesk 360 with the "Add or Remove Programs" a week or two ago. Maybe it's Dropbox or Google Drive? Is there a way to completely disable them from starting, i.e. on startup and other triggers that might cause them to start?

Alright I've been using this program called BestPractice for a while but today it won't start up. Reinstalling, restarting, etc. didn't work. I'm thinking maybe one of the things you guys told me to try might have caused it, but not sure since it looks like only autoruns and stuff such were...

No, the uninstaller won't actually let me remove McAfee because I have anti-theft. I think I only installed the anti-theft part and declined their anti-virus anyway. Is McAfee that bad? I don't think that's the cause because I don't have McAfee anti-theft or anything McAfee related on my...

...and explorer crashed twice today. Thanks for the help, but do you have any other ideas?

Ok the batch file you sent me is done. Looks like it didn't find any corruptions

It looks like I can't uninstall McAfee because I have Intel Anti-Theft installed on my computer I can't find vProt in the "Programs and Features" window, but I did find Akamai Netsession Interface and uninstalled it. I ran the batch file you sent me and "The operation completed successfully" I...

I hope this works :/

I got "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations."

Ok explorer is still crashing again. Is there a way to just export an error log so someone can take a look at what's going on?

Ok, it randomly crashed once again even after disabling everything (non-Microsoft) in ShellExView. Much more stable than before though. This is my main computer and I do a lot of work on it and stuff. Refreshing/Restoring it might only take 5 minutes but it would probably take a few hours to...

Alright apparently there was an option in ShellExView to "Show 32-bit Shell Extensions" that I just found. Unfortunately, after some further testing, I think it might be more than just one shell extension that's causing the crashing. I'll let you know which one(s) if I ever find out. Btw, can a...

This is getting weirder. I disabled everything non-Microsoft in ShellExView yesterday and explorer only crashed once. Then i decided to reenable half of the stuff to try to get to the bottom of this. Then it crashed immediately after restarting my computer and opening it. So I switched the half...

I have already disabled all 3rd party context menu handlers a while back. Should I try using ShellExView to disable all the other stuff like Browser Helper Objects too?

Ever since I started using Windows 8, both my HP Pavilion desktop and Sony Vaio Pro 13 has explorer.exe crash pretty often. The Vaio crashes more often - multiple times a day - maybe because it's my main computer now and I use it more often. Upgrading to Windows 8.1 didn't make a difference...