Mouse Right Click Properties Problem

When I click on My Computer and I get a listing of the
various partitions on my hard drive. When I then put the
cursor over a drive (such as C:/) and do a right click my
mouse either goes directly back to my desktop, or if a pop
up appears and I choose the "properties" option, the
properties window opens with the cursor in a question mark
state and in about 2 seconds everything disappears and I
go back to my desktop.

If I click on a drive it opens and if I then do the right
click with any folder or file the properties function
works just fine. This seems to be an explorer problem as
I have a file viewer utility that lets me use the mouse
right click and it opens the properties function with no
problems.

I have several utilities that check the system for errors,
but they all report that everything is working properly.

Any suggestions???

"Gerald Paglucio" wrote in news:050201c49260
:

When I click on My Computer and I get a listing of the
various partitions on my hard drive. When I then put the
cursor over a drive (such as C:/) and do a right click my
mouse either goes directly back to my desktop, or if a pop
up appears and I choose the "properties" option, the
properties window opens with the cursor in a question mark
state and in about 2 seconds everything disappears and I
go back to my desktop.

If I click on a drive it opens and if I then do the right
click with any folder or file the properties function
works just fine. This seems to be an explorer problem as
I have a file viewer utility that lets me use the mouse
right click and it opens the properties function with no
problems.

I have several utilities that check the system for errors,
but they all report that everything is working properly.

Any suggestions???



Prune out the 3rd party bits in the reg key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive
(there's some bits in the shell and shellex subkeys).

WARNING: If you make a mistake with this registry fix, then you may
never be able to view the drive context menu again!

This is what exists in my system (those numbers refer to CLSIDs, lookup
their names in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID):
ContextMenuHandlers
|- Offline Files
|- Sharing
|- {59099400-57FF-11CE-BD94-0020AF85B590}
\- {fbeb8a05-beee-4442-804e-409d6c4515e9}

DragDropHandlers
\- {fbeb8a05-beee-4442-804e-409d6c4515e9}

PropertySheetHandlers
|- Sharing
|- {1F2E5C40-9550-11CE-99D2-00AA006E086C}
|- {7988B573-EC89-11cf-9C00-00AA00A14F56}
|- {ECCDF543-45CC-11CE-B9BF-0080C87CDBA6}
\- {fbeb8a05-beee-4442-804e-409d6c4515e9}



The ShellexView utility from http://nirsoft.mirrorsx.com/ can apparently
clean out explorer keys for you. Haven't tried it though


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