File Explorer crashes after Right Click in Desktop

BitterOldMan said:

This program does not require installation, just right click and run as Administrator

My problem is right clicking causes the "crash" where Explorer seems to restart.

Another way around that is the keyboard shortcut that seems to work fine for whatever reason. Single-click on a program to select it, then press Shift-F10 to bring up the context menu.

It was NVIDIA's 'OpenGLShExt Class for me. disabled it and alls well.

Fantastic solution. Thanks so much for this !! I've been looking for weeks...
Mine was an Nvidia Shell Extension... {OpenGlShExtClass} Ugh... Now I can get back to work ...

sthomas128 said:

It seems that there's a bunch of misbehaving shell extensions for Windows 10, but...
Here's what fixed this for me...
Using the ShellEx program... http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
Through the process of elimination I disabled the SpyBot Search & Destroy Shell Extension, and, instant SUCCESS.
Be Aware, I disabled this once, enabled it again and it continued to work properly until a reboot, then it was right back to where it was.
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Yes... there seem to be a number of 'applications' that can interfere with Windows Explorer. Spybot (unfortunately) seems to be the cause of the difficulties with Windows Explorer (under Windows 10). But Uninstalling wasn't quite the end of the story. Dear old Spybot (no.. actually quite new) also has a 'hidden startup' running in Windows 10 to 'see if it's still there' !!! And it goes through a rigmarole with you on each 'Start' to get you to re-install. Pesky.. little Divil... So... Open up 'Task Manager' (and 'click' the start-up tag) and 'disable' ... "See If Spybot..." entry. Now you are probably free of this nuisance and - for me - Windows Explorer reverted to behaving itself impeccably. Good Luck! For you it might not be Spybot, but some other 'intended useful' piece of software. It's all become far too complicated. DOS is dead, long live the King!

topgundcp said:

Download: ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows
NOTE: download version 1.97 or later, else Restart Explorer won't work in step 4

1. This program does not require installation, just right click and run as Administrator
2. From the menu, click on Options then click on Filter by Extension Type and select Context Menu. Also put check marks as shown
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3. Click on the screen, Hold down CTRL Key+A to select all then click on the red button on top left corner to disable all.
4. Click on the Options again and select Restart Explorer
5. Now try to right click on desktop to see if it fixes your problem. If it does then start to enable one by one and repeat step 4 until the problem occurs again, that's the offending extension.

Thanks a lot for the tip. It has also solved my issue.
I have first of all filtered all the non Microsoft items and disabled. It has immediately fixed my issue. Thanks again.

Greetings and Happy New Year.

Same problem as described. Brand new ASUS for Christmas, wanted to rename some images. Right click and crash. Found this forum. First eliminated AVAST, because seemed a possible suspect and was redundant to Windows Defender. So, was an easy-to-do.
No joy.
Then used the ShellExView. Was not able to disable all context extensions at once. Started with about a dozen. Joy.
Now to determine which one. Started focusing on the new non-organic software. Fonix Phantom PDF was the apparent culprit. After uninstall, no more issues (for now).

THANK YOU.

Take good care,
Sandy

ps: made this profile to provide comment. Thanks again.

You're my hero! I've been struggling for 2 weeks.

Thank you for sharing!

I've also made this profile only to thank you.

Happy New Year!

Sandy Daze said:

Greetings and Happy New Year.

Same problem as described. Brand new ASUS for Christmas, wanted to rename some images. Right click and crash. Found this forum. First eliminated AVAST, because seemed a possible suspect and was redundant to Windows Defender. So, was an easy-to-do.
No joy.
Then used the ShellExView. Was not able to disable all context extensions at once. Started with about a dozen. Joy.
Now to determine which one. Started focusing on the new non-organic software. Fonix Phantom PDF was the apparent culprit. After uninstall, no more issues (for now).

THANK YOU.

Take good care,
Sandy

ps: made this profile to provide comment. Thanks again.

Thank you very much for this... works perfectly on my win 10.

topgundcp said:

Download: ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows
NOTE: download version 1.97 or later, else Restart Explorer won't work in step 4

1. This program does not require installation, just right click and run as Administrator
2. From the menu, click on Options then click on Filter by Extension Type and select Context Menu. Also put check marks as shown
   Attachment 87580
3. Click on the screen, Hold down CTRL Key+A to select all then click on the red button on top left corner to disable all.
4. Click on the Options again and select Restart Explorer
5. Now try to right click on desktop to see if it fixes your problem. If it does then start to enable one by one and repeat step 4 until the problem occurs again, that's the offending extension.

Downloaded ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows

Disabled ConvertToPdf Class by Foxit Software Inc.

& just in case everything by viksoe.dk (TbrFolder)

Solved