For a while now, whenever I right-click on an item in Windows 7’s Explorer, Explorer would crash a few seconds afterward. I searched around on the web, and the majority of the posts I found suggested a bad context menu handler.
So, I downloaded Autoruns, unzipped it an ran it. I selected the Explorer tab, and systematically disabled each context menu entry until the crash stopped. The culprit? A buggy nvshext.dll installed as part of my latest NVIDIA driver upgrade. I disabled this context menu handler in Autoruns, enabled the others, and now Explorer works again.
nvshext.dll in Autoruns
A search on nvshext.dll found a description of this issue on Nirsoft’s site.
Wow I know this is an old post Dale, but I just had to say thank you–this solved issues I have been having for ages.
Thank you!!