right-click on folder/file causes explorer crash

**Anilrgowda** · 28-Feb-2007, 10:08 PM

Question: hey guys recently i started having problems with crashes whenever i want to right-click on a folder/file. if i go into my harddrive and right-click on a file, or try to right-click move, or drag, or ctrl-c, it causes an error message. "windows explorer has encountered a problem and needs...."
if i view the error report, it reads..

appname: explorer.exe appver: 6.0.2900.2180 modname: kernel32.dll
modver: 5.1.2600.2945 offset: 00012a5b

some of the things that i try to see if i can fix it is by going to regedit, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
and deleting one context menu handler after the other, and then try each time in windows explorer whether right-click/Ctrl+C works again to find out if there is a defective extension.

it did not work.

**Anilrgowda** · 28-Feb-2007, 10:08 PM

Take a look at this site, provided by one of the top E-E experts, sramesh2k:

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers
Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers

28-Feb-2007, 10:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
Anilrgowda Administrator Posts: 18,702 Join Date: Jan 2006 Rep Power: 10 IM:	right-click on folder/file causes explorer crash Question: hey guys recently i started having problems with crashes whenever i want to right-click on a folder/file. if i go into my harddrive and right-click on a file, or try to right-click move, or drag, or ctrl-c, it causes an error message. "windows explorer has encountered a problem and needs...." if i view the error report, it reads.. appname: explorer.exe appver: 6.0.2900.2180 modname: kernel32.dll modver: 5.1.2600.2945 offset: 00012a5b some of the things that i try to see if i can fix it is by going to regedit, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers and deleting one context menu handler after the other, and then try each time in windows explorer whether right-click/Ctrl+C works again to find out if there is a defective extension. it did not work.

28-Feb-2007, 10:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
Anilrgowda Administrator Posts: 18,702 Join Date: Jan 2006 Rep Power: 10 IM:	Re: right-click on folder/file causes explorer crash Take a look at this site, provided by one of the top E-E experts, sramesh2k: Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers

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