Failed to set plaintext hotkey

Started getting this error today. I've run chkdsk with the f switch. It doesn't tell you if it found any problems, but after rebooting the situation is the same. Advice, please. Thanks.

Thanks, Ed. I didn't suspect that since WINKEY+X is a normal shortcut to a menu in Win10. But I think you're correct.

I haven't had that particular error message pop up lately, however I'm still having problems with icons in my task bar ignoring the right mouse click. Even the folder icon refuses to show me the file explorer. The left click on the search icon does nothing. But the right click does work. That's the only task bar icon that responds to a right click.

No click, left or right, works on the windows icon. Rebooting hasn't fixed this, but it only started acting this way within the last week. Malware Bytes doesn't find any virus. There shouldn't be any programs installed recently but I can't get to the control panel to check it out. Guess I could run chk dsk repeatedly. Is there a better switch than "f'" to use for this purpose?

Hey larrdonline,
If you haven't already, boot into safe mode and see if you can un-install that ArsClip to see if that fixes the issue.
Boot into Safe Mode on Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials

Otherwise, run the following commands ... see what/if they find/fix things

Open Command Prompt as Administrator

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
sfc /scannow


Note: They can take 10~15 minutes each to run, so be patient :)

At this moment it appears the problem was having ArsClip auto start with Windows. Since I use it during every session it seemed helpful to just have it start with the system boots but that appears to be what's been messing with my right click menu. If I run the program after booting it works fine and there is no problem with right click. Thanks for all the help and suggestions.