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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 ...
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!
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.
I do hope you come back and see this. Just wanted to say eternal thanks for this fix. Unbelievably appropriate. Windows 10 (ASUS R541U, brand new) was having this exact same problem. The guys in the shop thought it was the Microsoft Office 365 installment. It wasn't of course, and I got really really angry with them for selling me a faulty machine. Eventually I find this fix through you at home. Gonna go back to the shop and tell them their business.
Hmmm.... on a further note, when the pinked items are re-enabled one by one, none of them seems to be the culprit and the file explorer works fine until I reboot. Then it's back to square one. If I just leave everything disabled there seems to be no problem. So how to find out which is the culprit?
Last edited by TRIALNERROR; 20 Jan 2017 at 14:01. Reason: wrong term
Downloaded ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows
Disabled ConvertToPdf Class by Foxit Software Inc.
& just in case everything by viksoe.dk (TbrFolder)
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