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Old 04-22-2016, 10:19 AM   #37
KevinH
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A google search on crashes while right clicking in file explorer and other apps really do show that almost all of them are caused by bad shell extensions (or conflicts between them) - just as Kovid said. According to many of the posts, in many cases safe boot was NOT enough to prevent the problem until the offending Shell extension was found and removed. The recommended approach was to run a binary search on ALL 3rd party shell extensions until the problem case if found.

The program of choice seems to be "ShellExView" which allows you to disable and enable shell extensions easily.

There also seems to be registry key setting that will allow Windows 10 to dump an error log when crashes happen. That is often used to help track down the offending item.

A error dump certainly can not hurt.

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