No installation is required and the tool can be run by double clicking on shexview.exe. To get started, first download ShellExView. Since context menu handlers can be added to the registry in several different areas, ShellExView easily identifies these areas, and lets you disable all programs or one at a time, which removes the option from the context menu, allowing you test and identify the cause. When programs such as Zip utilities or Ant-Virus applications are installed, you will also see additional options added to the context menu, as shown in the screen shot below with AVG Antivirus application installed:
Examples are p aste, copy, cut, open with, share, etc. What is a context menu handler? It's a shell extension that adds functionality to context menus when you right click a file or folder and a menu appears. For the purpose of this tutorial, I'll show you how to use ShellExView to help isolate and identify the cause of a misbehaving context menu handler. ShellExView from NirSoft can do more than fix slow right click problems since the tool can display all installed shell extensions.
