Due to incompatible startup items, You may experience explorer.exe crashing problem. So, You should disable recently added or updated startup programs and services so that Windows will Run smoothly. Here fallow Bellow Steps to Disable Problematic Startup Programs or Services.

Fallow Bellow Steps to boot windows into Safe mode.

Click on Start - select Update And Security - Select Recovery form Left side - Now Click Restart from bellow to Advanced Startup.

This Will Restart windows into Advanced options Here Select Troubleshooting on next Select Startup Settings. Now press F4 to Simply Enable Safe Mode. You will see a screen like below picture

 This will start Windows into Safe mode where We can Easily Troubleshoot the Explorer problem without Any Error.

If you face this problem ( Explorer keeps Restarting ) after install an Third party application or program , Then may This Application Not Compatible with Windows or contains Virus so that this Error happened, uninstalling the Application may Fix your problem. Here how to uninstall any Recently Installed Application.

First open control panel Here Select view by Category and click on Uninstall a Program as shown bellow image.

Now when the uninstall and change program Screen opens select the recently installed application Right click on it and Select uninstall to Completely Remove the program from your system.

Sometimes your graphics card issues may create windows explorer unresponsive or problematic. It is possible that video card problem is creating the restarting loop of explorer.exe. So, Try to update graphics card and see if it fixes the problem.

To update Graphic driver on your system right click on This PC select Manage this will open the Computer management window here select Device manager form left side. this will display all installed device drivers Now expend the display adapters select your installed graphic Driver , right click on it and select update Driver software.

This will install best available Driver for your windows. if this not work for then just uninstall the driver  and get latest driver from Manufacturer website

To get an updated version of drivers for your graphic card, visit your graphic card manufacturer’s website. Search by the card’s model and download the appropriate drivers compatible with your operating system and system type (x64 or x86). To know them both, hold Windows key and press R, type msinfo32 and press Enter.


You can go to your PC manufacturer’s website (HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Acer, etc.) or the display card manufacturer’s website (Intel, Nvidia, AMD, etc.) to download the latest driver for the display card.

Run A SFC Utility to Repair Corrupted files

System File Check is an command prompt syntax to check for the system file corruption, it scans the integrity of all protected operating system files and replaces incorrect, corrupted, changed, or damaged versions with the correct versions where possible. Since SFC scans the protected operating system files, you will need an administrator rights to perform this command. Click on Start menu and type CMD  and right-click on it and click Run as administrator.



This Will open command prompt with administrative previlage. Now  Type  command
“Sfc /scannow” and enter to run. This will start  Scan your windows for errors.


Sfc /scannow will inspect all of the important Windows files on your computer, including Windows DLL files. If System File Checker finds an issue with any of these protected files, it will replace it.
wait untill complete the scanning process after complete 100% Restart your system.

Some Times Copy the Explorer.exe to System 32 Folder can fix this issue. Here how to Do first open this pc -  Windows installed Drive C - Windows - and find out the explorer folder right click on it and select copy. Now look for System 32 folder on Same directory open the folder and past the copied Explorer folder here. That't it.

Add New User Account

Most Of Times Creating a New User Account and login with this New Created Account can fix this Explorer Crashing issue.

Read Different Ways to Create User Account 

In virus infected PCs, Explorer.exe problem happens more frequently. Else, You also may experience this problem only when you are going to open any specific folder or file explorer. In that case, A full scan with a good antivirus program can help. It will detect the malicious programs and viruses and delete them. As well as it may correct windows explorer restarting issue.

Download latest Antivirus 

Now perform A full system Scan. After scanning process complete Simply Restart the windows and check Windows working smoothly. Also Run Third party system Optimizer Tool like Ccleaner to clear system junk files, and clear Corrupt Registry files.

Download Ccleaner 

Uninstall KB3081449 and KB3081448 updates

Several users reported that update KB3081449 was the cause of the issue, Try with uninstall this update and check problem solve or not. so let’s see how to delete it.
 open control panel view by small icons here open programs and Features. Here select View installed updates. now find KB3081449 and uninstall it. If this doesn’t help, find update KB3081448 and uninstall it as well.


As you can see, problems with file explorer can seriously limit your Windows 10 user experience but we hope that these solutions were helpful to you.

Delete Corrupted explorer.exe on Registry

Open Registry Editor: Press Windows Button and type "regedit". Click on it to open. Click YES on the User Account Control Prompt.

Before make any changes first Back up the registry just in case any thing wrong.

Registry Editor > File > Export > Provide a file name > save to computer.

Delete the "explorer.exe" key from Registry 

First open registry windows from Win + R and type regedit and click on ok this will open the Windows Registry window.

Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options" and delete the key "explorer.exe" from the left sidebar Close Registry editor.

And after that Just restart the windows, Hope After perform This Steps your problem will get solved.
If you have any comments, questions or suggestions, just reach for the comment section below.

Also Refer Bellow Video Steps Performed to Fix Windows Explorer Keeps Restarting and Crashing problem on windows 10.