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I noticed in my taskbar first that I could no longer open a new explorer window by clicking on the pinned folder (Left, middle and right-clicking all immediately cause explorer to hang and restart).

I am able to start a new explorer window by either Win+R and typing explorer.exe or by using the start menu "File Explorer" button that is baked into the start menu. When going to C:\Windows directly and attempting to right click on explorer.exe, explorer hangs and restarts. Left clicking on this file yields expected results.

The Product/File version of this file is 10.0.10586.0.

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    Sounds like you have a malfunctioning context menu entry. Try the tool mentioned here and see if disabling 3rd party shell extensions helps: superuser.com/a/248638/23133
    – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007
    Nov 24, 2015 at 16:23
  • I'll try this, but right clicking in any other context (IE inside of an explorer window on any other file, or on the desktop) works fine.
    – Christopher Wirt
    Nov 24, 2015 at 17:01
  • captrue a crash dump (pastebin.com/WACz5GBU), zip the dmp and share it. I'll look at the dmp with a debugger.
    – magicandre1981
    Nov 24, 2015 at 19:34
  • @magicandre1981 There is no localDump created from my actions. I am not 100% sure if my error is fully crashing explorer, but it appears similarly to what explorer does crash, only the explorer windows I had open already are still open afterward.
    – Christopher Wirt
    Nov 24, 2015 at 20:27
  • look in the eventlog if you see application crash events. Maybe the Explorer just hangs
    – magicandre1981
    Nov 25, 2015 at 5:40

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