Vista desktop crashes

I am using Vista Home Premium and now I find that, when I right-click on a
desktop icon to delete it, I get the message "Windows Explorer has stopped
working," the desktop clears all icons then renews and I am back to square
one. What is the problem and how do I correct it?

Thank you, Dave. I will give it a whirl.

"Dave-UK" wrote:

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> "Barrie" <> wrote in message newsE1D96B6-311A-4F8C-8B76-...
> > I am using Vista Home Premium and now I find that, when I right-click on a
> > desktop icon to delete it, I get the message "Windows Explorer has stopped
> > working," the desktop clears all icons then renews and I am back to square
> > one. What is the problem and how do I correct it?
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> It sounds like a bad context menu extension in explorer.
> This program will list your context menu extensions and allow to to disable them,
> one at a time, until you find the culprit.
> http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
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