{"id":17,"date":"2016-12-13T21:40:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T21:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/?p=17"},"modified":"2016-12-13T21:40:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T21:40:34","slug":"windows-explorer-crashing-on-right-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Windows Explorer crashing on right-click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it turns out there&#8217;s been a bug in one of the windows updates, which causes Windows Explorer to crash when you right-click in the left hand pane.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find the fix but I <em>did<\/em> find the tools to figure it out myself. Anyway, here it is.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll need ShellExView from http:\/\/www.nirsoft.net\/utils\/shexview.html#DownloadLinks &#8211; fire that up, then sort by &#8220;CLSID Modified&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s probably the most recent one there, but just in case it isn&#8217;t, this is the culprit here<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cause-of-explorer-crashes.png\" alt=\"cause-of-explorer-crashes\" width=\"508\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cause-of-explorer-crashes.png 508w, https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cause-of-explorer-crashes-229x300.png 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yep, either a windows update or something left over from one that should have been removed afterwards (but wasn&#8217;t).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it turns out there&#8217;s been a bug in one of the windows updates, which causes Windows Explorer to crash when you right-click in the left hand pane. I couldn&#8217;t find the fix but I did find the tools to figure it out myself. Anyway, here it is. You&#8217;ll need ShellExView from http:\/\/www.nirsoft.net\/utils\/shexview.html#DownloadLinks &#8211; fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}