


The ShellExView is a standalone executable and does not require any installation process or additional DLLs. These could have been created and left behind by programs which no longer exist on your computer. This feature is especially useful when you are dealing with Shell Extensions which are no longer used. Once you install this application in your computer and run it, it will display all the details of the installed shell extensions like description, company, filename, location, version etc… You can manually enable or disable any of these shell extensions. Lets look at the really easy way out – We need to download and install a small application called SHellExView from Nir Sofer – you can get it from their website. You can fix this problem manually by editing the registry but that would be a lot more difficult (unless you are an experienced user). Let’s try to figure out how to fix this problem: You can see examples of Context Menu Handlers in the image given below marked by the arrows: It could be just one bad Context Menu Handler or many of them. If you are facing / have faced this problem, then it is due to bad Context Menu Handlers in your computer. Have you ever right-clicked on a file or a folder and had to wait for ages and ages before the Windows Context Menu opened up? You might also get the following error : “ Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close…sorry for the inconvenience…” There might be no response when you right-click on a folder and try to get to its properties. How to fix: Right-click menu is very slow to appear
