dpberry

Well,it worked! Thanks to you. I selected all of the entries to disable and the problem disappeared so I knew it was one of them. I enabled all of them again and the problem reappeared. Then I began disabling them in groups of 15-20 until I found the group that got rid of the problem. I then enabled that group one by one until I identified the problem entry. BTW, I did not have to reboot each time. My problem was with EncodeDivxContextMenuClass and I currently am leaving it as disabled. Do you think it would be wise just to uninstall Divx from my computer or just leave this as diabled?

Thanks for the reply. I have downloaded and installed ShellExView. I have about 93 listings. Any suggestions where to start based on my problem?

I am now having the same problem in Windows XP XP2, whenever I right click on a file in Windows Explorer. Windows Explorer freezes for about 30 seconds and then shuts down. The desktop refreshes and I am right back to where I started. Went into regedit and looked at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Shell. What exactly should I be lookin for?