Right click on Windows 10 desktop keeps loading forever? Fix it in less than 30 seconds!

Aarthi Kathirvel
Technoscape
Published in
1 min readSep 15, 2020

If right click on your desktop never loads the context menu and a blue spinning wheel keeps loading, you’ve landed at the right place to fix it!

  1. Open Cortana search bar (or) open start and type cmd → Click Run as administrator
  2. A black screen opens (it’s the command prompt)

3. Copy and paste the below lines entirely in command prompt and finally press Enter.

reg delete HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers /f

reg add HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\New /VE /T REG_SZ /F /D {D969A300-E7FF-11d0-A93B-00A0C90F2719}

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

ping localhost -n 5 >nul

start explorer.exe

echo success

4. Now go to desktop and right click. It will work like a charm! :)

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