Explorer/context menus slow to open after last update

In its wisdom, Windows 11 has updated my system again (KB5035942 and KB5035853). I had previously uninstalled KB5035853 because it broke some things -- but this time those things work, and what is broken instead is File Explorer. When I try to open Explorer, or right-click on an item, or try to select Home in an open-file dialog, it takes up to about 30 seconds to respond (by which time I've usually clicked again, and I end up with multiple explorer windows). The only thing I've ever seen cause something like this is a broken network connection to a remote mount, but that's nt the case here -- the network is fine, my shared are all alive and well, exactly as they were before the update.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? Can anyone can suggest what the problem might be, or what to do about it apart from rolling my system back to the good old days when everything just worked as it was supposed to?

1 Are the symptoms apparent in Safe mode?
2 Are the symptoms apparent in another user account?
3 I assume you have already run SFC.



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same issue my explorer works very fine but the problem is when im opening videos, pictures, text files, winrar... they take around 15-10 sec to open then if i try again with in 20 seconds they open fast in all this 20 second but when it passes and i try to open again it will be slow again and takes long to open, (exe files dont have this problem they open so fast) i uninstalled winrar and some other apps it doesnt appear to be the problem and i have disabled everything in shellexviewer and restarted explorer.exe and still same issue anyone could help please ?
note: i also tried sfc and dism solutions nothing works i have tried all known solutions in youtube
note2: in safe mode everything works fine

MadRoxx said:

same issue my explorer works very fine but the problem is when im opening videos, pictures, text files, winrar... they take around 15-10 sec to open then if i try again with in 20 seconds they open fast in all this 20 second but when it passes and i try to open again it will be slow again and takes long to open, (exe files dont have this problem they open so fast) i uninstalled winrar and some other apps it doesnt appear to be the problem and i have disabled everything in shellexviewer and restarted explorer.exe and still same issue anyone could help please ?
note: i also tried sfc and dism solutions nothing works i have tried all known solutions in youtube
note2: in safe mode everything works fine

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