Various issues in explorer, thumbails/file type icons dissapearing, open with context menu will freeze, clicking on my computer in explorer won't brin

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None of these problems exist in a new profile I created.


When first login the thumbnails are present, after a while they go away.


When try to use file | open with, it freezes windows explorer and i have to restart it.


There is a com host process running all the time using a lot of CPU. i looking into the details of the process and it is thumbcache.dll it runs non stop, and keeps my cpu fan going.


In outlook 2016 if i try to attach a file, it crashes outlook.


Things i have tried:


Updated everything


DSIM and DISM or whatever


sfc scannow


delete thumbnail and icon cache


Windows defender finds nothing


downloaded and ran malware bytes, nothing found


downloaded and ran CCCleaner, and found some junk registry keys related to uninstalled programs, got rid of all of those now it runs clean.


downloaded shellxview and disabled everything not by microsoft. restarted.


read in here where someone had an issue with Adobe that was causing the problem.... updated my Adobe Acrobat Pro to the latest update.


EVERYTHING else on the PC works fine, onedrive, opening and closing office apps, creating new and updating old office apps, etc.

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