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.
