Solved Right mouse click on file crashes windows explorer

Hi,
Right mouse click (and touchpad click) works on other apps such as excel and everything
After click the busy symbol appears for about 2 seconds then explorer disappears.
Windows 11 home 22H2 22621.2283 up to date
Last update 14 days ago
Restarted explorer from task manager. problem remains.
Had windows search indexing off. Turned back on . reboot . problem remains
Ran anti virus - no problems.
Uninstalled open shell. reboot problem remains.
Ran sfc /scannow. No problems

Any help would be appreciated

Welcome to the forum. The first thing I would do is a clean boot to eliminate software conflict causing the issue. If it doesn't happen in a clean boot, you have some software conflicting with Windows. Brink's procedure will help you weed out which one. Perform a Clean Boot in Windows 11 to Troubleshoot Software Conflicts Tutorial

If that doesn't lead you to the problem I would do a repair install. Repair Install Windows 11 with an In-place Upgrade Tutorial

Thanks Gk
I'll try out your suggestions and let youknow

Ok
I went through the clean boot procedure and the problem still exists .
So it looks like a Windows reinstall

In this Video, i will show you how to fix the slow right-click issues and File Explorer Crashing problems in Windows.

Thanks Freebooter
I tried the Nirsoft software
Unfortunately the crashes still occurred after following the instuctions.

Try repair install if that does not work, clean install Windows 11.

Just to complete the reporting on this -
After following the clean boot suggestion and installation of Nirsoft software and not fixing the problem - I was about to do a windows clean install - but a new round of windows updates became available. So I installed that update - and rather surprisingly the right click problem on file explorer had been fixed!
I know that doesn't make a whole lot of sense - Why was I getting the problem in the first place?
Anyway if anyone else reads this in trying to solve a similar problem they have the suggestions from glasskuter and freebooter

We are glad to hear your issue has been resolved, thank you for letting us know that all is now well!

The problem only happens when I select more that one file. Booted into safe mode and did not have the problem so something that is loading in normal boot mode is doing it and that could take a year to find it.

In this guide, you will learn the steps to perform a clean boot on Windows 11 and Windows 10 to help you troubleshoot and determine conflicts in your setup.

FreeBooter said:

In this guide, you will learn the steps to perform a clean boot on Windows 11 and Windows 10 to help you troubleshoot and determine conflicts in your setup.

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Have tried all of that...

You have one more option, that is to use Autoruns to disable third-party services and programs also scheduled tasks to see if any one is causing the problem.

In this video, i will show you how to use a powerful application like Autoruns to manage your Windows start up programs, processes and other entries.

FreeBooter said:

You have one more option, that is to use Autoruns to disable third-party services and programs also scheduled tasks to see if any one is causing the problem.

In this video, i will show you how to use a powerful application like Autoruns to manage your Windows start up programs, processes and other entries.

Click to expand...

Thanks, give me some time on this one...

@FreeBooter got the problem solved, restored an image and everything is fine now.

I'm glad to hear that!

After several hours, the problem was created by PicoPDFEditingSoftware.exe.