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Right click on mouse crashes Windows Explorer

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20263685 views
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Problem

Whenever I click the right button on my USB mouse or trackpad of my laptop, Windows Explorer will crash and restart. All windows opened will close. I am using Windows 7 Enterprise. Has anyone else faced such a situation before? This happened just after I plugged in a USB 3.0 hard drive to my laptop.

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Fix for: Right click on mouse crashes Windows Explorer

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Sounds like a buggy context menu hook. If it started right after a USB drive was inserted then it's likely that either the drive came preloaded with "value add" crapware (I'm looking at you, SanDisk) or that the USB drive was infected with a piece o…

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