{"id":265,"date":"2010-05-05T21:07:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T02:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insomnihack.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2010-05-05T21:07:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T02:07:31","slug":"windows-7-explorer-context-menu-crash-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.insomnihack.com\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Explorer Context Menu Crash Fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now, whenever I right-click on an item in Windows 7&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>So, I downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/bb963902.aspx\">Autoruns<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_266\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insomnihack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/autoruns_nvshext_dll.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-266\" class=\"size-full wp-image-266 \" title=\"nvshext.dll in Autoruns\" src=\"http:\/\/www.insomnihack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/autoruns_nvshext_dll.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.insomnihack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/autoruns_nvshext_dll.png 630w, http:\/\/www.insomnihack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/autoruns_nvshext_dll-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">nvshext.dll in Autoruns<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A search on nvshext.dll found a <a href=\"http:\/\/shellfix.nirsoft.net\/fix_shell_problem.html?id=20&amp;dll=nvshext.dll\">description<\/a> of this issue on Nirsoft&#8217;s site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Systematically disabling context menu extensions in Autoruns fixed an annoying Windows 7 Explorer crash.<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.insomnihack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.insomnihack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.insomnihack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.insomnihack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.insomnihack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.insomnihack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.insomnihack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.insomnihack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.insomnihack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}