- Aug 5, 2009
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In windows explorer, on the left panel where all my hard drives are listed, I like to right-click and check properties of the drives from time to time.
Today when I try and right-click on any of my drives, windows explorer... pauses... and then a window pops up saying "Windows Explorer has stopped working... windows Explorer is restarting." and then I am back at my desktop.
Here is the tricky part: On the right panel... on all of my file folders... I am able to right click with no issue. On all files - right click no problem.
Just on the Drives listed on the left panel does this issue occur.
I could just click on "computer" in the listing and all of my drives will appear and their available space. But I need to solve this right-click issue. Thanks in advance!
Other notes:
Malware bytes found some low level issues and cleaned them out. Spybot seek and destroy also killed off some things. I even ran Kaspersky anti-virus and that found nothing. I got rid of that bloatware trial version.
Netstat commands shows no funky IP addresses, so I don't think its a root kit.
I have ShellExView installed... and I cant seem to find the item I need to disable to get it back.
The ShellExView utility displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Today when I try and right-click on any of my drives, windows explorer... pauses... and then a window pops up saying "Windows Explorer has stopped working... windows Explorer is restarting." and then I am back at my desktop.
Here is the tricky part: On the right panel... on all of my file folders... I am able to right click with no issue. On all files - right click no problem.
Just on the Drives listed on the left panel does this issue occur.
I could just click on "computer" in the listing and all of my drives will appear and their available space. But I need to solve this right-click issue. Thanks in advance!
Other notes:
Malware bytes found some low level issues and cleaned them out. Spybot seek and destroy also killed off some things. I even ran Kaspersky anti-virus and that found nothing. I got rid of that bloatware trial version.
Netstat commands shows no funky IP addresses, so I don't think its a root kit.
I have ShellExView installed... and I cant seem to find the item I need to disable to get it back.
The ShellExView utility displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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