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When I press right mouse button on text, text-like file, zip archives on my Windows 11 machine - file explorer freezes, then when I force close it - whole explorer restarts.

How can I debug what causes this behaviour? I recently installed Visual Studio Code and allowed "Open with Code" in context menu but I don't know if this is what causes the problem.

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    Revert any additional context menu additions. Then one by one add them back. There is a hard limit on the number of context menu options
    – Ramhound
    Commented Dec 13, 2023 at 10:49
  • How can I revert them? Is there like a tool to check date when they were added and remove them? @Ramhound
    – idchlife
    Commented Dec 13, 2023 at 10:51
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    You could look into "Ultimate Windows Context Menu Customizer" or look at editing the Windows registry for the context menu entries.
    – TechLoom
    Commented Dec 13, 2023 at 16:07
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    It is almost 100% caused by a shell extension you have installed. This tool (ShellExView) will let you disable (and examine) what is happening on the right click. AutoRuns is also good for this.
    – Señor CMasMas
    Commented Dec 13, 2023 at 16:29

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After restarting my Windows 11 machine problem disappeared.

After I switched from Macbook to Windows 11 laptop I was too accustomed to using machine without restarting once in a while so it was a huge surprise for me (after 2 weeks of agony of not being able to use context menu) that windows 11 restart resolved everything.

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