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adamsleath
08-16-2008, 03:52 PM
i had a little problem with right clicking on various files using windows explorer.

often i would right click on certain types of files and a windows dialogue would pop up telling me that " DR Watson has detected an error with windows explorer and needs to be shut down " or as near as i can remember the message.

anyway, i googled and found that quite a few how to fix blogs have been posted regarding this and the particular solution i found was related to context menus.

one such blog pointed me to this tool:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

which allowed me to disable various context menus until the problem was 'fixed' - no probs with the right click anymore...

i dont know what caused the problem to arise, or how to really fix it properly, so i posted it here.

also, coretemp .95 causes my comp to crash sometimes and i never had this prob. before, even though i have googled it and found many others with the exact same problem.

that's it for my little windows problems :)

m^2
08-16-2008, 05:47 PM
Simply, one of your shell extensions is buggy. Now enable extensions one by one and when the problem appears again, you'll know which one is it. Report the bug to it's authors.