Right Clicking Folders doesn't work?

joe2cool

Hi... on initial startup of PC(Vista) when I try to open a folder it doesn't it just seems to search, a pop up appears to close or try again. Once closed & I try again all is well each time, & no further problems occur? Until I restart the PC? Its becoming annoying though as to why?

Appreciate any help

scar1_2

Next time you boot up your PC leave it for a while. You could have lots of items in your startup which are also taking up resources therefore not allowing you to access folders and or explorer your hard drive right away.

Check to see what items you have in your startup and remove any unnecessary things. such as application like itunes, adobe.... these appz you can use on demand.

Reboot and try again.

Cheers

joe2cool

Hi & thx I was thinking it could be something like that but not sure, appreciated

joe2cool

Hi just thought I'd let you know out of sending this ? to 6 forums only this one came back with a reply. I finally sorted the problem which was caused by a poorly coded context menu handler. I just thought this might be useful to someone else. A context menu handler is a shell extension handler that adds commands to an existing context menu.
Download ShellExView and run it.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

It will scan the registry for all the shell extensions. Once the scan is over and the list is displayed, you need to spot the context menu handlers. Sort the results using "Type", so that the context menu handlers are displayed together.

General rule here is to disable non-Microsoft context menu handlers *one-by-one* and verify if the problem is solved. If disabling one does not solve the problem, undo the disabled item and disable the next non-Microsoft handler. Do the same until the problem is solved and finally identify the culprit. Scroll right to see the Company Name column in ShellExView.

You can disable them ...they say "one at a time" and see what effect it has on the problem. You can do it a lot quicker by bisecting the list, disabling half of the entries in one fell swoop, rebooting and trying the right click. You just have to narrow it down. Then keep bisecting the list until it is just a few and do these one at a time. The problem is that you have to reboot between tries to get accurate testing of the results of your disabling.

The latest version of ShellExView marks all the non-Microsoft extensions in Pink for easy identification. All other types of shell extensions that ShellExView utility cannot recognize are categorized as "System" type.
For me it turned out to be connected to the program 'Eraser'

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