Win 7 64 bit- Explorer

Has anyone else noticed Explorer (explorer.exe) has started crashing a lot on right-click in Win 7? It's even doing this on clean install with just Windows updates applied.

John.

Edited by Sark (Fri 20-Nov-09 14:51:15)

Not on mine it doesn't (Win 7 Pro 64Bit and Win7 Ultimate 64bit)..

Any particular part of Explorer??

64bit Pro here and its been fine when I have used it.

I prefer Google Chrome

I prefer Google Chrome

Not Internet Explorer. Explorer, the windows file manager.

John.

Any particular part of Explorer??

Seems to be random on right-click anywhere in an explorer window or the desktop.

John.

Hmm. Google reveals that it might be Firefox 3.5 that is responsible. That would correlate with my timeline as I recently did switch from Chrome to Firefox and have been using Win7 for much longer without problems. I'll switch to another browser and see if the problem goes away.

John.

It might be worth setting IE back as default browser, but running Firefox from Icon and see if that cures it

Ken

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I've had this problem on and off with Vista and Windows 7.

I did some searching around the internet and one train of thought reported by several people was that it was caused by incompatibility between the operating system and some shell extensions that software may have installed.

These extensions are the things that give you a variety of 'options' when you right click.

Windows puts it's own in, which are OK, but so does a lot of the software that we install and with many you don't get the option not to install the shell extension.

For example; 7Zip gives an option to 'extract' a zipped file when you right click on it.

There is a little 'freebe' application that reveals all the shell extensions that are installed, and gives you the ability to 'disable' - or 'enable' - the extension.

I would look to the ones placed there by software not related to the operating system and 'disable' them one at a time until you find the one(s) responsible.

My problem was (is) associated with a programme that I use a lot and therefore I left it 'enabled' because I prefer to have the functionality despite the ocassional 'crash'.

It can be a bit time consuming to find the 'problem' one, but it is easy to 'enable' them again so there's no permanent damage done.

See link for application.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

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I only use FF, 3.5.5 atm.

I don't recall Win7 ever crashing, FF has crashed once

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Too many Ex's to mention (ISP wise)

But to be fair to 7-zip, it is one of the good ones, as you can pick and choose which of its actions you want on the Right Click menu, including none at all if you so choose. Just go to 7-zip File Manager. Click Tools, Options, the Plugins tab and then Click the Options button and pick which actions you want. Including whether 7-zip has its own cascading entry in the Right Click drop down menu if, like me, you have quite a few of its actions selected for the Right Click menu.

As to Nirsoft, along with SysInternals, probably among the best sets of general Windows utilities available. Seen Nirsoft's new launcher yet?