This problem occurs when you try to browse folders when suddenly your Explorer.exe is not responding and you need to restart Explorer.exe. Hence, your whole system hangs for a few seconds and you basically can do nothing with your taskbar has also gone.
Then after the finger-crossing moment is over, your icons in the system tray have also been resetted. In my case, some of the icons have also disappeared and I need to end the process and restart it so that I can use or monitor the application again.
It indeed occurred to me so often that I thought it was my folder being corrupted and deleted the whole folder in the end. Apparently, it was not.
This error is caused by the automatic image preview built-in in Windows. This image preview feature is loaded inside the system files and always loaded whenever your system boots by default. To be more exact, it is registered as the shmedia.dll. It is better known as the Media File Property Extractor Shell Extension. Therefore, once we unload this dll file, you will not experience this Windows Explorer error again.
To unload or un-register the shmedia.dll, simply from Start Menu > Run, type:
regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
This command will let you un-register the shmedia.dll and hopefully, there will be no Windows Explorer error again.
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