re: explorer.exe crashes on right-click in Start menu Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 11:58 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Sordid (74 messages posted) That is extremely helpful. Looks like a very interesting and useful program, and you were right, disabling the extensions fixed the problem. Now just to find the one that's causing it and give it the boot. Thank you very much for your help. :-) On Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 7:56 pm, Spexx wrote: >This type of crash is nearly always caused by a bad "shell extension" module. Think >about what software might have been installed recently, particularly if it installed >a new right-click context menu item. Download ShellExView >which will list all the shell extensions and allow you to disable them for testing >purposes. Try disabling all non-Microsoft extensions first, check that the problem >has gone away (which is likely) and then start adding them back one by one, until >the problem reappears. You will then have found the culprit! Hope this helps. Cheers. >Spexx. Written in response to: re: explorer.exe crashes on right-click in Start menu (Spexx: Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 7:56 pm) Responses to this message: re: explorer.exe crashes on right-click in Start menu (Sordid: Monday, August 18, 2008 at 12:13 am) All messages in this thread [show all] explorer.exe crashes on right-click in Start menu (Sordid: Sun, Aug 17, 2008, 3:28 pm) re: explorer.exe crashes on right-click in Start menu (Spexx: Sun, Aug 17, 2008, 7:56 pm) re: explorer.exe crashes on right-click in Start menu (Sordid: Sun, Aug 17, 2008, 11:58 pm) re: explorer.exe crashes on right-click in Start menu (Sordid: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 12:13 am) re: explorer.exe crashes on right-click in Start menu (Spexx: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 2:19 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum