Explorer crashes on Right click on Folder - SOLVED

[Spoon2001]

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.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

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

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[Spoon2001]

Because you have/had this installed?

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

No, this one was the culprit:

http://www.pixvue.com/

So far, I haven't uninstalled it completely ... just the Context Menu
Handler for the Folder object.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Thanks for posting. It may not be the same handler causing the problem for
everyone. Pls see::

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootlist/208.htm#4

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

Right click crashes Explorer.exe after installing Windows XP SP2?:
http://www.winxptutor.com/sp2/divxcrash.htm

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


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.