Monday, October 6, 2014

Windows 10 "element not found" - explorer.exe error

I recently installed windows 10 preview on an old laptop (Dell Precision) which has an Nvidia Quadro 3000M video card.  After running windows update i was getting an error every time i tried to load any metro app including the feedback app.

Error: The error popped up a box saying Explorer.exe with text "element not found".

Fix: Disable the Optimus feature in the bois.

It appears to be a Nvidia optimus problem similar to the one that initially affected Windows 8 and most likely will not be fixed till the vendor puts out windows 10 specific drivers.

More info:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_tp-hardware/nvidia-optimus-not-working-properly/a059390d-dfc1-44aa-9a47-d2172d70933e

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/779669/nvidia-optimus-doesnt-work-with-windows-10-tech-preview/?offset=2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus

Phoenix

I am resurrecting this tech blog for notes related to Azure Logic Apps with SAP.