

- #ERROR OPENING WRITING FILE DRIVER DRIVERS#
- #ERROR OPENING WRITING FILE DRIVER DRIVER#
- #ERROR OPENING WRITING FILE DRIVER WINDOWS 10#
If your PC’s display scaling is already set to 100%, try changing it to 125% and back to 100% again. Step 5: Change the scaling option to Windows recommended. Step 4: Change the Display Resolution to the recommended settings. Step 3: Scroll down to Scale and layout option. You can also use Windows + I key to access the Settings app.
#ERROR OPENING WRITING FILE DRIVER WINDOWS 10#
Step 1: Open the Settings app on Windows 10 machine. Follow the steps below to make relevant changes. In Windows 10, using an unrecommended screen layout and resolution might mess up File Explorer functions. This is rather unusual but an effective solution to fix the File Explorer not opening on Windows 10. The command will reboot the File Explorer app on Windows 10. Step 4: To start the explorer.exe process again, type explorer.exe in the windows and press Enter. You’ll see a blank screen behind the Command Prompt window. Step 3: This command will end the explorer.exe process. Step 2: Type taskkill /f /im explorer.exe in the Command Prompt window and hit Enter. Step 1: Press the Windows Key and type cmd to open the Command Prompt app. If the Task Manager trick isn’t working for you, try using Command Prompt to restart the File Explorer on Windows 10. This is relatively unknown to the majority but you can restart the File Explorer app through Command Prompt commands. Manually Restart File Explorer Using Command Prompt Step 5: Type explorer.exe and hit the OK button.įile Explorer will restart quickly and it should fix the app not opening on Windows 10 issue for you. Step 4: Click on File at the top and select Run a new task. Step 3: Right-click on Windows Explorer and End the task. If you don’t see the Restart option in the trick above, you need to end the task for the Windows Explorer app and start the app again. The system will restart the File Explorer app for you. Step 4: Click on Restart at the bottom right corner. Step 2: Open Task Manager and look for more details. Step 1: Hit the Windows key and search for Task Manager. Thanks for any light that anyone can shed into this.You can simply restart the File Explorer app from the Task Manager. If such a massive part of it randomly disapears and reappears, it suggests taking a backup of the registry may well be futile as the registry is so volatile. This has a MAJOR impact on my strategy to take backups of the registry.
#ERROR OPENING WRITING FILE DRIVER DRIVERS#
What is the Drivers key used for? I notice it is not documented and does not appear in most screenshots of HKLM.
#ERROR OPENING WRITING FILE DRIVER DRIVER#
If this is the case, it could well be a driver itself doing this.Ĭould the random appearance/disapearance of the HKLM\Drivers key be due to the permissions against this key? Is it by design? Is it being hidden briefly for some bizarre reason? Or is it perhaps being deleted and recreated, perhaps by a program. Only after reopeing the registry for the fourth time, did it re-appear but only to vanish again after a while.

After re-opening registry, I noticed the Drivers key had completely vanished. I noticed this occured the moment I tried to navigate through the HKLM\Drivers key. As I was navigating through the registry on my Windows 8.1 machine, I found myself presented with the error message:Īn error is preventing this key from being opened.ĭetails: the system cannot find the file specified.
