File explorer sometimes opens blank and has to reread drive

Sometimes when I open File Explorer, my files and drives are not listed and it has to reread my boot drive and my other internal drives before it will show everything.  This is a fairly recent situation.  I never experienced this with WIn 7 or
Win 8.
Any ideas?
My setup is as follows:
Dell XPS 8500 desktop running Win 8.1 (clean install).  My boot drive is a Crucial mSata SSD.  I also have two regular hard drives for data and backup.
Thanks

Did you try a refresh ?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/restore-refresh-reset-pc
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