

After all these steps, you can quit the Registry Editor and try right clicking anywhere at the desktop to see if the menu pops out immediately. There may be an error notification popping out in the process of deleting. Just right-click them and choose Delete in the menu.Ĥ.

In ContextMenuHandlders, you can delete all the files except for New. Or you can click Edit tab and choose Find…, then enter Directory in Find what, Look at Keys and check Match whole string only, hit Find Next to find the specific folder.ģ. Click HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT > Directory > Background > Shellex > ContextMenuHandlers. Enter “ regedit” in the textbox and click OK or press to open Registry Editor.Ģ. Click on start and then click on settings if you using Windows 10. Have you ever had this problem? It is actually caused by some key values in the registry, just delete them and the problem will be solved.ġ. Right click (context-menu) slow after installing Intel HD Graphics 4600 Driver You can. You need to wait for even five or six seconds after right-clicking your mouse at the desktop. For whatever reason, it never detected any hanging applications or tools even when right click took 30 seconds.Some people may experience a problem when upgrading to Windows 10 – the reaction of the right-click menu is very, very slow. Note that the NirSoft WhatIsHang tool failed in this case as well. Sadly, ShellExView is an amazing tool, but didn't work in my case.Ĥ. Later when I knew exactly what shell extension was causing the problem, I disabled just I disabled every shell extension in the system with no results. HKCR\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers. Since my problem was with right clicking on the desktop, I deleted keys in Method 1 describes several different types of registry keys that may need to be deleted to handle different kinds of problems. I then restored all of the deleted registry keysĪnd deleted just the one that was causing problems.Ģ. I then started deleting context handlers until the problem went away. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers (using Export from the registry editor) and saved it on my desktop. Make sure you backup the registry or at least the keys you are changing before you make any changes to the registry. Of course, this changed the desktop right clickġ. By deleting the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\NvCplDesktopContext key from the registry the problem went completely away.
