A variety of actions cause explorer.exe to crash and restart. Some examples:
-Right clicking taskbar and opening settings (settings doesn't open)
-Opening start menu and clicking settings or change account settings (settings opens)
-Opening cortana (cortana crashes)
-Typing anything into the run menu (opening the run menu is fine)
What I've tried to do that didn't fix the problem:
-Restart computer
-Disable all third party shell extensions with shellexview
-Run Avira scan
-Run Malwarebytes scan
-Run CCleaner
-Reinstall different stable graphics drivers (gtx 660)
-Attempted to reset windows 10 with USB (couldn't complete reset for some reason)
-sfc /scannow fixed some registry errors and nothing changed
Important info:
-I did have classic shell installed, my guess is it didn't uninstall properly.
-My mlang.dll might be corrupted
Haven't found anyone online who had quite the same problem. I might solve the problem myself, I'll post the solution if I do. Any other help is appreciated!
