Windows Explorer Issues - Black background/screen, app icons not loading, start menu unresponsive, etc.

[Windows 11]

We recently updated from windows 10 to windows 11. There are almost hourly issues of explorer.exe related items crashing/not working including the screensaver going black, the start menu not working, all of the app icons on the start bar and screen not loading at all, or loading incorrectly and not being able to click on the buttons. Restarting the computer helps or going into task manager and restarting explorer.exe but its getting pretty old doing this 4-5 times daily.I have checked for updates, my drivers are up to date.

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