Freeze on Win8x64 [in Explorer also]

Hello all, for the past two months I've been having DO freeze on my home laptop. I have two drives (SSD,HDD) and for some reason when I try to open a drive on the HDD it always freezes. Sometimes it works OK for an hour, but soon after it will always freeze. It actually seems like it's freezing something in Windows also since I get explorer to freeze sometimes also! At that point, I can't even use explorer to browse the drive.

I uninstalled and just use Q-dir for now since it has NO issues, never freezes. I'm not doing anything fancy or complicated, just browsing the drive! Also, this happens a lot with MTP connection (very very slow browsing, especially if there are a lot of files in a directory). Again, Q-dir has zero issues. I love DO and I'd love to reinstall, but I can't with these issues!!

Any ideas how to troubleshoot??

Since it's happening in Explorer as well, it's almost certainly a 3rd party shell extension which is going wrong inside both Explorer and Opus.

The guide here has suggestions on tracking it down:

Crash, exit or high CPU usage when viewing certain directories