Re: Start Menu "Open", "Open All Users", etc. failing

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From: Ramesh, MS-MVP (ramesh_at_online.mvps.org)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:39:49 +0530

ShellExView might help:
Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm 

-- 
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org
"msswift" <msswift@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:BA79F199-21E1-4220-8DD1-AB9416CF1924@microsoft.com...
> On one of my XP Pro SP2 machines, right-clicking a folder in the Start 
> Menu
> and selecting any of the options "Open" "Open All Users" "Explore" 
> "Explore
> All Users" fails to do anything at all.  It should open/explore the
> corresponding folder, e.g., c:\documents and settings\all users\start
> menu\subfolder.  It does so on several other similar machines, but not 
> this
> one.  On the problem machine, these selections work only with the Start
> Button itself, never any folder in the Start Menu.  The problem occurs for
> all users and for a newly created user; and whether you use the classic 
> start
> menu or the new start panel under "all programs."  Selecting "rename" and
> "delete" and "sort by name" and "properties" work normally.  As do all
> context-menu options for individual files (as opposed to folders).  No 
> errors
> appear in the Event Viewer, and all other functions of Windows appear to 
> be
> normal.  c:\windows\explorer.exe and explorer.scf appear to be identical 
> to
> those files on a working machine.
>
> I've hunted through the Internet and hunted through the registry looking 
> for
> how to fix this problem or any further information on how those menu 
> options
> work -- anything that would help debug and analyse the problem.  If you 
> have
> any relevant information for me, I will be very grateful for it.

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