Realplayer downloads folder crashes windows explorer

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Robyn Lovell. Hi, please can someone help me?! This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Anyway when I ended up checking the properties for the folder I noticed that it was set as "Read-Only" and the folder was being optimised for viewing pictures, therefore when I disabled the "Read-Only" setting and set the file optimisation to "General" the folder now works and doesn't close every 5 seconds Anyway hopefully this will help someone!

Best, Sash. How satisfied are you with this reply? In this article, we will discuss about how to fix Downloads folder not responding in Windows It can also be applied to Windows 7 but usually the problem comes in Windows Note: Make sure that only the Downloads folder is having issues. When we make a folder and add items in it, depending upon the type of items in that folder Windows automatically sets its type to pictures, media, music etc.

But in case of a downloads folder there are random files of all types. This happens because Windows will try to create thumbnails for the media by default which are in the Downloads folder even if none of them are media files. This is changed in the Downloads folder properties. The downloads folder is one of the most widely used folders of your computer. I have the same question 3.

Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. In reply to No. Compromise's post on June 17, Uninstalling realplayer solved the problem but I was using the latest version and have been I wont miss real player much because the only reason I had it was for the browser record feature. When causing crashes by myself I found that several dll's were causing this problem all from Real Player converter. Unfortunately you can't uninstall real player converter by itself so you must uninstall the entire program.

You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. In reply to Rae's post on November 30, Let me know if you nee more info.