# Slicer hangs any time I open a file dialogue menu

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicer-hangs-any-time-i-open-a-file-dialogue-menu/4660>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** dicombrowser\
**Created:** [November 6, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicer-hangs-any-time-i-open-a-file-dialogue-menu/4660 "2018-11-06T18:21:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![jamesobutler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jamesobutler/32/7511_2.png) [@jamesobutler](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jamesobutler)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 11:34pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicer-hangs-any-time-i-open-a-file-dialogue-menu/4660/12 "2018-11-06T23:34:19Z")

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Although Justin’s issue seems more like a hanging problem and not a crash problem I’ll provide some knowledge I had recently that might be related?

I had a recent experience with a user using Slicer 4.10.0 on Windows 10 where Slicer would consistently crash after the following:

```python
a=qt.QFileDialog()
a.getOpenFileNames()

```

The native dialog would open and then after about a second it would crash with a Slicer exit abnormally message and that’s it. The icon in the Windows Taskbar would flash whenever it crashed so it seem like a Explorer issue. I was unable to replicate this issue on other Windows 10 computers with Slicer 4.10.0. I tried it again on the problem computer today, and it wasn’t crashing. Maybe something about opening dialogs to specific remembered paths that are invalid or paths with specific icons?

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