Windows 10: Win10 File Manager Explorer crashes to desktop each time I right-click on a drive or folder

Bought a new PC yesterday and Windows 10 Home has been fully updated to the current version, all other options/drivers were updated too. Windows Defender, firewall and other security are installed and all working. No system error messages.

But in File Explorer file detail view, Win10 Explorer crashes to desktop each time I right-click on a drive or a folder within the left-hand drive and folders pane.

But it does not crash when I click on a folder listed in the right-hand file pane. No error message, just an immediate crash to desktop.

And if I had copied a file or folder, the copy and paste cache seems to have been emptied, as I can't then paste when I restart the Explorer. The system is otherwise stable and working well.

Need a solution to a bug I've not encountered with my last up-to-date Win10 PC.

Can someone please advise what's going wrong here? Cheers.

:)

 

File Explorer crashes after Right Click in Desktop


Download: ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows
NOTE: download version 1.97 or later, else Restart Explorer won't work in step 4

1. This program does not require installation, just right click and run as Administrator
2. From the menu, click on Options then click on Filter by Extension Type and select Context Menu. Also put check marks as shown
   
   
   
3. Click on the screen, Hold down CTRL Key+A to select all then click on the red button on top left corner to disable all.
4. Click on the Options again and select Restart Explorer
5. Now try to right click on desktop to see if it fixes your problem. If it does then start to enable one by one and repeat step 4 until the problem occurs again, that's the offending extension.

 

Win10: Windows file explorer keeps crashing when I right click on a drive or file, how do I stop this action.

When ever I right click on a drive, folder, or file in Win10 using windows file explorer the program just crashes. It does this every time I try using the file explorer program. No error messages no warning etc.; it just closes as soon as I right click.
While it has done this erratically since I upgraded to Win10 it now does it every time I right click.

 

Right-click on folders or files crashes the Windows Explorer

The cause for this problem seems to be third party shell extensions. To get rid of culprit extension, you can download ShellExView. ShellExView is a free third-party application that can be used to manage, disable and enable all of the shell extensions
that you have on your computer

Download ShellExView -
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.zip

Extract the zip file

Launch ShellExView by right-clicking on the application named shexview and clicking on Run as administrator

You will be met with a list of all the shell extensions installed on your computer once the program is done compiling it. Once you see the list, click on Options > Filter by Extension Type > Context Menu.

In the newly compiled list, you will see entries that have pink backgrounds. All of these entries are shell extensions installed on your computer by third-party applications.

Hold down the Ctrl key and click on each of the “pink background” entries to select them.

Once all of the “pink background” entries have been selected, right-click on them and click on Disable Selected Items to disable all of them.

Click on Options > Restart Explorer. Try right-clicking on your Desktop, and File Explorer should no longer crash.

Once you have fixed the problem, next comes identifying the culprit and disabling it for good. To do so, you are going to have to:

Right-click on any one of the “pink background” shell extensions that you disabled and click on Enable Selected Items to enable it.

Click on Options > Restart Explorer, right-click on your Desktop and see if File Explorer

If File Explorer does not crash, keep on repeating steps 1 and 2, enabling a different third-party shell extension every time, until File Explorer crashes and you start experiencing the problem again.

The third-party shell extension you enabled just before the problem returned is the culprit. You can go ahead and enable all of the “pink background” shell extensions you disabled except for this one as this one is the culprit. Keep this shell extension disabled
for good – in fact, it is recommended that you uninstall the third-party application that installed this shell extension on your computer altogether.

(Source -
https://appuals.com/file-explorer-crashing-afte...)

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