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OK, whenever i right click in windows explorer, it crashes and restarts back up. I can right click on the desktop but i dont have anything but Personalize, View, and Refresh in the menu. I used to have the whole "New, WINrar, and other 3rd party stuff" but now it's gone. Cant right click on shortcuts to rename, etc.. Cant right click on folders to copy or cut..HelP!

I'm running Vista Home premium 32-bit

Cant help you with this one sorry good luck gettin it fixed

Eagle345 wrote:I'm running Vista Home premium 32-bit

This probz explains ur problem though lol get XP or Win7

Have you used Vista lately/at all Mike? All the Vista haters either never used it and base claims off of t3h int3rw3bz or used it pre-SP1 and pre-updates so got the bad end of the stick.

And a friend has also had this on XP, so it's not a Vista problem.



Pop your Vista disc back in and boot from it, then choose the option of "Repair my Windows Installation" and see if that does the trick. You should be able to keep all of your files.

i agree with vox here.
i got vista when i started and it was a pain in the ***. now it runs pretty well, better than my xp box.

however, i only use xp and vista to game, as for all my work i use ubuntu.

from my experience, the repair my windows fixes most problems that you cant fix yourself

Sounds like some of the context menu entries in your registry got wiped out.

Search in the registry for your missing context menu entries to see if they're still there.

Although if you don't know what you're looking for, that would take a while.


Best bet is to see if the repair works.

[R-COM]VoXiNaTiOn wrote:Have you used Vista lately/at all Mike?

yes ofc i had it lmao i had it installed on my comp when i got it, ran it for a couple of months and didnt like so go rid quick. then got XP Pro and that was much better in all ways, but got bored of it and i got Vista again early in July 09 and again no difference in it still lots of problems with it and it was a pile of sh!t so now i have Windows 7 and up to now this is the best OS i have had.
i dont comment on things if i havnt had it or used it im not a noob mate.

Ok i'll try the disc

How exactly do i boot with the vista disc?

Pop it and and it should boot from it, most likely with a "Press any key to boot from disc" prompt.

If not then you will need to:

1 - Jump into your BIOS (Normally pressing F2 or DEL a lot shortly after you turn on the PC works)

2 - Once in the BIOS, go into the BOOT menu (use the arrow keys)

3 - There should be an option of Boot Device Priority, enter that and make the CD Drive the top priority.


Pop in the disc, restart the PC and you are good to go.




Mike, just saying on the grounds that most Vista haters have never used it and are still on XP and haven't even tried, glad to know that this mould has been broken. (I'm still sticking with Vista though .)

i get to the repair my installation and then i click system repair i think and i get a couple options.
Startup Repair (cant run it because it says i have something plugged into the computer)
System restore- dont think i want to do that
WindowsComplete PC Restore- Restore entire xcomputer from a backup
and command prompt...

Which one do i want? lol sorrg for typos my laptops keys are reallyy sensitive.

for what windows explorer?

i've had to repair before, go for startup repair i think.

I've tried startup repair but i get a message in the "repairer" it went something like if i recently had a device that stored data in one of the USB ports i'd have to restart and try again so i had a joystick stuck in one of them and i disconnected it then tried again. Didn't work

[R-COM]VoXiNaTiOn wrote:Mike, just saying on the grounds that most Vista haters have never used it and are still on XP and haven't even tried, glad to know that this mould has been broken. (I'm still sticking with Vista though .)

ok mate no probs we just have our own opinions

and to how to boot mate look on youtube and there is some vidz to show u how to boot from CD/DVD it helped me to reformat my comp.

I know how to boot it up now, just wont let me use the option i need...

Hey guys, this still remains a problem...help?

what do u mean it wont let u choose the option u need?

Eagle345 wrote:OK, whenever i right click in windows explorer, it crashes and restarts back up. I can right click on the desktop but i dont have anything but Personalize, View, and Refresh in the menu. I used to have the whole "New, WINrar, and other 3rd party stuff" but now it's gone. Cant right click on shortcuts to rename, etc.. Cant right click on folders to copy or cut..HelP!

I'm running Vista Home premium 32-bit

Start/ all programs/ accessories/ system tools/ system restore

Use the last known good configuration, if that don't work, use the next one back.

If you do not have any restore points then... LoLz!!! Reformat/ load OS... Thats what I would do.

PS... Vista>XP... that is all