Illustrator closing/disapearing randomly during explorer save/export/open

Hi everyone,
This is a weird one, recently ive been having an issue with illustrator randomly closing with no notice and for no obvious reason.
In short ive found it happens when the pop up window to save/export/open has been initiated or while I'm navigating through folders. Just incase which screen i mean is un clear, its this one in the picture;
so as this window is opened everything dissapears, including the save window, no crash report, no sign of a program not responding......just nothing.
look forward to hearing form anyone who has had this problem, losing work and it sucks!

Nobody can tell you anything without proper system info or other technical details. And well, setting thumbnail size in Explorer to "humungously large" certainly doesn't help matters.
Mylenium

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