Windows 10 Explorer.exe leaks memory when start menu is opened on second monitor

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Dimasiq

For a while i started noticing a strange thing - when i open start menu on my second screen, the menu freezes and search bar on first screen starts freaking out. When i opened the task menager, i noticed that the memory was leaking during that freeze - explorer.exe used 9Gb of RAM and (explorer.exe + system process) used ~90% CPU. Eventually menu crashes. I usually don't get any errors or event log entries, but i did get one after waiting for some time with menu opened. Is there any fix for my problem?

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