Windows 10 File Explorer Not Responding

ISSUE: when you are trying to open a folder on your PC and the window stalls and says "Not Responing"  try this.

Step 1: Go to the search bar and search for “Control Panel,” if you can find it on your own then you can proceed.

Step 2: In the “Control Panel“, you have to find the “File Explorer Options”.

• a: If you have found the search bar then type “File Explorer” and results will show up based on your System Configuration.
• b: The first result would be of “File Explorer” and click on it.

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Step 3: As you can see from the image below that you have to use the “Clear” option to erase all previous data that is the primary cause of the issue. You can just click on the “Clear“.

Step 4: Now click “Apply” or “Okay.”

This will remove the recently used files in the Quick Access, and it will also remove the Quick Files.