> My gut feeling is also that `es.exe' is (co-)responsible. In fact, this is more
> than a gut feeling, as it's somehow based on a beam of presumptions:

> - with the latest versions of Emacs, the infloop always occur when using
>   helm-for-files (never, for example, when using helm-M-x, which is the other
>   tool I'm using, as frequently, from Helm)

> - `es.exe' is launched after having typed at least 3 characters in the prompt,
>   and I've never seen an infloop with less characters (that is, only one or
>   two) typed at the prompt: I always have typed a pattern of at least 5 to 6
>   chars before the freeze occurs (sometimes, even much more, when being
>   deleting many characters because I typed an fault in the filename I'm after)

> - on Monday, after having gotten several frozen Emacs (since the last reboot
>   of Windows -- once every 3 weeks or so), I had noticed up to 7 instances of
>   `es.exe' (I guess they were hanging as some zombies, though I don't know to
>   prove this -- any idea?)