Classic Shell: Forum

I have had to reboot once, and the problem goes away for a while, but seems to come back.

I see the spinning circle, wait a while, give up, and when I come back (maybe a minute or two), no context menu.

I think this may be a new issue with 3.6.6

Windows 8, 64 bit, Dell XPS14

It is unlikely because Classic Shell doesn't touch the context menu.
Just in case, capture a crash dump as shown at the top of this page.

Thanks for the response.

I am surprised that classic shell doesn't touch the context menu, as there are configurations for the context menu in it's settings menu.

I don't think anything is actually crashing. The right click on the explorer window takes a long time to return. But it does return control after a minute or two.

I installed classic shell 4/7/13 and adobe photoshop elements 4/9/13. Not sure how adobe photoshop would be affecting this, but in between the time I rebooted the machine, and problem started happening most recently I do not believe I ran adobe photoshop.

The "context menu" settings in Classic Shell are when you right-click in the start menu or on the start button. It is not related to Explorer.

A dump is useful not only when there is a crash, but also when a program is slowing down. It can show what parts are being slow. Look at the instructions here: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6

oh, ok -- thanks

I'll do that when I get a chance

But seems like this isn't the right forum for the crash dump

You can try attaching it here. If it's too big you have to find somewhere to upload it.