File Explorer stutters, loses focus

Writing from Bridgewater, CT, AskWoody subscriber Bill Chinn wonders why his copy of File Explorer gets confused.

• “Hi Fred! I have recently had an ongoing issue with the behavior of File Explorer in my version of Windows 10 Pro.
  
  “It seems that every time I open File Explorer and begin scrolling through the directories, after a few seconds the focus (and display) shifts back to the original location when File Explorer first opened. This is especially frustrating when I am trying to save a document and it suddenly is saved in a directory other than the one I scrolled to.
  
  “Some searches on the web provided some possible solutions but none of them applied to my situation.
  
  “I am not running any screen savers, just a static background picture for the lock screen.
  
  “Any ideas for solving this?”

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