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Thread ID: 104952 2009-11-14 00:49:00 Right Click Causes Windows Explorer to Crash Pharaoh (15206) Press F1
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829924 2009-11-15 00:18:00 What files did you copy then delete? Not windows files I hope, I would get rid of Nortons, its a POC

I would be a bit careful with the Nortons advice. All commentators I have read say the 2010 version is good i.e. it is effective and has removed the system killing 'features' of earlier versions.
linw (53)
829925 2009-11-15 00:36:00 Its just as bad as Mcafee, all talk no action. It may be faster, but does it ACTUALLY do anything else? Speedy Gonzales (78)
829926 2009-11-15 02:02:00 I was having a bit of a clean up in My Documents folder earlier today. A few times when right clicking and selecting "Cut" to move a file (word/pdf/jpeg) things would hang and then go back to the desktop with the message that Windows Explorer had experienced an error and had to close--send error report to MS.
Only trying to cut/paste simple files, not had this problem before. Everything else working normally. Not changed/added anything recently.
Grimy (3041)
829927 2009-11-15 03:37:00 Did you install new software just before you started noticing this? I've come across this when some software I installed a context menu extension that was buggy .

You can uninstall the software, or just disable the context menu extension for it like this:
- Get AutoRuns ( . microsoft . com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902 . aspx" target="_blank">technet . microsoft . com) from SysInternals (do a web search) .
- Run it, then choose Options/Hide Windows Entries .
- Click the Refresh icon to make that setting take effect .
- Click on the Explorer tab .
- Scroll down until you see a category that ends in ContextMenuHandlers . There might be more than one category with that name .
- Look in the Publisher and Description columns there to find anything that might be the culprit, and uncheck it .
- Restart Windows .

Once you've done this, check and see if you're still getting the problem . It worked for me . It's also great for removing annoying clutter from the context menu . :)
waldok (15185)
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