Saturday, February 12, 2022

Windows 11 Explorer crashes on right mouse click on file or folder in network drive

Since upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 I was experiencing frequent crashes of Windows Explorer when performing a right mouse click on files or folders located in a network drive location.

How-I-fixed-it:

I did two thing which finally fixed it for me. 

I found them both in the Microsoft Answers Forum here:

Windows 11 explorer crash - Microsoft Community


1. Clearing explorer cache (Source: Windows 11 explorer crash - Microsoft Community)

Open Run Command ( Press Windows key + R)

-Copy, paste then click ok the file path below:

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations

Delete everything inside the AutomaticDestinations folder

-Restart PC and check

2.  Disabling Context Menu entries (Source:  (Described here: Windows 11 explorer crash - Microsoft Community)

- Download ShellExView : https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

- Run it

- Sort by type and go to items "context menu"

- Then disable them one by one an restart "windows explorer" (task manager) each time : check. If ok, the last one is the guilty one.


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