You know...those utility or anti-virus apps that think they are doing you a favor by adding to the right-click context menu. Makes it all more convenient, right? Not necessarily.
With Windows 10, these modifications might cause you a bit of grief as they did me recently. When I went into Windows Explorer (File Manager) and simply right-clicked a folder in the left column of my computer's root directory. Instead of showing the context menu, Windows Explorer simply crashed. I went in, tried again and boom. The program simply shut down. Not good! Yet in the right column of Windows Explorer I could still right-click items as usual. So all was not lost.
Of course I knew something was wrong, and with much of any problem I'm like a dog with a bone. It didn't take much googling to learn from various links the possibility of how third-party applications which add to your Windows 10 right-click context menus may simply not cooperate with the operating system as intended.
The simple fix? I considered the last program that added an entry to my context menu. Luckily there were only two third-party apps showing. Went into the options of this program (I won't mention the name) and simply turned off the context menu relative to this particular application. Voila! I could now right-click anything in Windows Explorer without incident.
So...the next time I install another program that gives me this option, I'll be sure to say "no thanks" to adding another entry into my Windows 10 context menu. Food for thought!
Windows 10 File Explorer Crashes when right clicking on a file or selected files
With Windows 10, these modifications might cause you a bit of grief as they did me recently. When I went into Windows Explorer (File Manager) and simply right-clicked a folder in the left column of my computer's root directory. Instead of showing the context menu, Windows Explorer simply crashed. I went in, tried again and boom. The program simply shut down. Not good! Yet in the right column of Windows Explorer I could still right-click items as usual. So all was not lost.
Of course I knew something was wrong, and with much of any problem I'm like a dog with a bone. It didn't take much googling to learn from various links the possibility of how third-party applications which add to your Windows 10 right-click context menus may simply not cooperate with the operating system as intended.
The simple fix? I considered the last program that added an entry to my context menu. Luckily there were only two third-party apps showing. Went into the options of this program (I won't mention the name) and simply turned off the context menu relative to this particular application. Voila! I could now right-click anything in Windows Explorer without incident.
So...the next time I install another program that gives me this option, I'll be sure to say "no thanks" to adding another entry into my Windows 10 context menu. Food for thought!
Windows 10 File Explorer Crashes when right clicking on a file or selected files
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