Re: Explorer crashes on Right click on Folder - SOLVED



Because you have/had this installed?

Pix-VU Tool
http://users.waymark.net/rongerry/pix_vu.htm



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

Right-click is extremely slow only when Network is enabled
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:e%23$gnypJGHA.1832@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Spoon2001 <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
> I had a problem where Windows Explorer would crash whenever I
> right-clicked on a Folder icon. It would not crash if I right-clicked on
> a file.
>
> The problem disappeared when I deleted the following registry key:
>
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\PixVueContextMenu
>
> Before deleting this key, I exported the following key to a REG file:
>
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
>
> Under this key, each subkey represents a different context menu handler.
> I deleted the subkeys of this key one at a time. After I deleted each
> key, I tested by running Explorer again and right-clicking on a Folder
> icon. It was only when I deleted the PixVueContextMenu key that the
> problem disappeared.
>
> Hope my experience will be useful to somebody.
.



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