Increasingly difficult to connect phone to pc for file transfer

I'm having increasing difficulty connecting my phone to any of my pcs. It started with additional time being taken for the pc to recognize the device. Now I get lots of freezes if I try to navigate to the internal or sd card, sometimes freezing up windows explorer. Recently, I have been unable to create new folders on the device from windows without freezing up windows explorer and now my files and folders are not populating correctly. I named a folder ppsspp on my device, it shows up in windows as "New Folder" across several devices and freezes the explorer if I try to interact with it.
Today I am unable to transfer anything to my device and connecting to the pc just freezes up explorer about 4 out of 5 times I connect it. Any advice? I't like my phone's connection to PCs are consistently degrading.