Right Click and No Properties

Right Clicking to open the properties of anything works fine until I try to
open shortcut icons, some files and folders. I get a fatal error message and
then Window Explorer shuts down and then restarts. No access denies or
request for permission, just shut down and restart. Any ideas?

Ladybug wrote:
> Right Clicking to open the properties of anything works fine until I try to
> open shortcut icons, some files and folders. I get a fatal error message and
> then Window Explorer shuts down and then restarts. No access denies or
> request for permission, just shut down and restart. Any ideas?

Did it ever work correctly on that particular machine? Could be a hard
disk error or a corrupt file. I would start by checking the filesystem
for errors. Also, try sfc /scannow from a command prompt.

No it has never worked. This has been going on since I upgraded from WinXP
to Vista 2 weeks ago. I just finished a re-install of Vista and it didn't
fix the problem. Everything worked fine in WinXP, so it doesn't seem to me
it's something I would have carried over from XP in the Vista upgrade.

I have been checking the filesystem without luck. I'm trying a process by
elimation of running processes and haven't come up with anything there as
yet.

It seems like something is conflicting with Window Explorer. Could be a
corrupt file, but I would have thought that that would have been taken care
of during the re-install of Vista.

Haven't tried sfc /scannow from a command prompt, but will give that a try.

Thanks for responding. I need all the help I can get on this one. It has
me scratching my head. Thanks again.