How to Fix Slow right Click in Windows 8 8.1 and 10

Even though Microsoft tries very hard to get rid of bugs & improve of its Windows product, few stuffs still remain unnoticed or can’t be fixed permanently. Windows being the most popular Operating system, different people find many new bugs which are reported daily to Windows technicians. Few problems can be solved by a simple troubleshoot or virus scan. Recently I found a bug due to which the “Right Click menu” takes ages to open up. This problem had people scratching their heads, as there’s no fix for this. But today I’m here with a very simple fix for Slow right click in Windows 10/8/8.1 & slow context menu.

The bug has also been encountered in Windows 8 & Windows 8.1 which has exact same fix. Many people say it’s because of some virus or external software. But, Don’t worry it’s not because of any virus or software, it’s just a registry error which can be fixed in no time.

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How to Fix Slow Right Click in Windows 10/8/8.1

Step 1. In your Windows 10/8/8.1 device, search “Regedit” & open Regedit. (This will open your Windows’s Registry editor)

Search Regedit in Windows Search bar
Search Regedit in Windows Search bar

Step 2. Click on “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT” & expand.

Registry editor Windows 10/8/8.1
Registry editor Windows 10/8/8.1

Step 3. Scroll down & click on “Directory” and expand.

Step 4. Similarly scroll down in Directory and find “Background”.

Step 5. Expand Background & find shellex. Expand shellex and find “ContextmenuHandlers“. (Entire path ” HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers”)

ContextMenuHandlers in Windows 8/8.1/10
ContextMenuHandlers in Windows 8/8.1/10

Step 6. Delete all the folders (Right click on folders & select delete) inside “ContextMenuHandlers” except “New” & “WorkFolders”. It should look something like this.

Delete all folders in ContextMenuHandlers
Delete all folders in ContextMenuHandlers

Step 7. That’s it! Now restart your Windows 8/8.1/10 device. You have successfully fixed Windows explorer slow right click.

Also Read: How to install RemixOS in Windows 7/8/8.1/10

Reason for slow Right click in Windows

Unwanted Registry Enteries in Windows 10
Unwanted Registry Enteries in Windows

Registry is nothing but collection of information in Windows which keeps important information about your system hard wares, configuration of application programs that are installed and settings.

Registry can contain hundreds or thousand entries, and over the period of time entries in this registry keeps created. Since it fills with information, it takes memory space on your system and causes computer’s performance issues. As I told you in the beginning of this article, that entry in the registry is made during the installation of a program, but it never get deleted by Windows even after uninstallation of a particular application. Such type of entries which are pointing to a program which no longer exists is called unwanted entries. This type of unwanted entry can cause great issues related to your computer performance. (Source)

Since now we have removed all the unwanted registry files in the Background registry which manages all the stuffs like Desktop wallpaper, Desktop performance, menus etc. the right click will work perfectly now! Solved Windows 10 & Windows 8  slow right click menu. 

FAQs

Step 1: You can enable the right on Windows 10 by following the steps written below.
Step 2: Click on the taskbar 
Step 3: type “edit group policy” and then click on it 
Step 4: Select User Configuration 
Step 5: Click on administrative templates and go to all settings
Step 6: Go to the standard tabs and double click on “Remove file explorers default content menu”
Step 7: You will find a pop up opened, in the pop up choose enabled and press apply. 

You can get the right-click menu on your screen without actually right-clicking. To get the right-click menu, press “SHIFT” followed by “F10” on your keyboard.

Right click is the action of pressing the right mouse button or RMB. Pressing the right mouse button shows the user all the additional functions of the mouse. These functions are listed in the form of a drop down menu.

There have been cases where the file explorer crasher whenever the user presses the right mouse button. This is mainly caused by a bad context menu handler. A context menu handler is a shell extention handler that adds comments to an existing context menu.

Follow the following steps to fix the mouse:
Step 1: Remove the screws 
Step 2: Take the top part of the mouse off
Step 3: Remove the buttons
Step 4: Find indentations on the buttons
Step 5: Flatten the indentations using a nail file and reassemble the mouse. 

Step 1: Search for Mouse settings
Step 2: Under “Related settings”, select “Additional mouse options”
It will open Mouse Properties Window.
Step 3: Click the Buttons Tab option
Step 4: Adjust the slider under the “Double-click speed”

Step 1: Go to Settings > Devices > Mouse
Step 2: Under “Select your primary button” dropdown, change Left to Right.

Ajinkya

Ajinkya has close to a decade of experience covering consumer technology and previously worked with Android Authority, Android Headlines, Anandtech and lot more. Ajinkya loves all things technology and is also an avid DIYer at heart. Ajinkya has a background in IT and Deep Passion for Everything Android and Google. His specialties lay in Smartphones of all budgets, Accessories, Home Automation and more.

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  1. I deleted the “New” folder and now i can’t create new folders and files using right click. I need that folder back. Can anyone export it and send to me the .reg file, please? Thanks!

    Reply

    1. 1. Copy the following lines to Notepad
      Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

      [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\New]
      @=”{D969A300-E7FF-11d0-A93B-00A0C90F2719}”

      2. Save the file with .reg extension (“New.reg”)
      3. Now, double click on the file to apply the changes to registry

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  2. WOW! I was thinking I had to reformat my laptop and I decided to do searches on Google first and found this article. This sounded exactly like the problem I had been experiencing so I decided to give it a try. It was so easy to follow the instructions that you gave and it fixed my laptop. You have no idea how super excited and happy that you made me!!!! Thank You!!!!

    Reply

  3. One thing I would add is a step 5a: Once you have found the ContextmenuHandlers registry section, right-click on it and choose Export. Choose the Selected Branch option at the bottom of the window. Put the .reg file in a good location with an easy to remember name. This way if you mess anything up you can double-click on the .reg file and re-add the commands back into the Registry.

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  4. PS: On top of the slow right click, It had came to the point that when I tried to view folders with photos and cliparts in them it was taking extremely long for them to load. Downloading pictures from my camera would take almost half an hour!!! Now the photos load instantly!!! SO HAPPY!

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  5. One thing I would add is a step 5a: Once you have found the ContextmenuHandlers registry section, right-click on it and choose Export. Choose the Selected Branch option at the bottom of the window. Put the .reg file in a good location with an easy to remember name. This way if you mess anything up you can double-click on the .reg file and re-add the commands back into the Registry.

    Reply

  6. PS: On top of the slow right click, It had came to the point that when I tried to view folders with photos and cliparts in them it was taking extremely long for them to load. Downloading pictures from my camera would take almost half an hour!!! Now the photos load instantly!!! SO HAPPY!

    Reply

  7. WOW! I was thinking I had to reformat my laptop and I decided to do searches on Google first and found this article. This sounded exactly like the problem I had been experiencing so I decided to give it a try. It was so easy to follow the instructions that you gave and it fixed my laptop. You have no idea how super excited and happy that you made me!!!! Thank You!!!!

    Reply

  8. These are the folders in my shellex > context menu handlers > >> FileSyhEX…. {596AB062-B4D2-4215-9F74-E9109BOA8153}……………………DropboxExt………..EncryptionMenu…………Sharing…………Workfolders.

    That’s all of them. There is no “New” and some of those folders have names of programs I use and need and just deleting that… I don’t know if I should ….more like NO WAY…
    ………………………………………………..?????

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  11. Desktop was refreshing VERY slow, I couldn’t access my file explorer at all. All programs took forever to load. I couldn’t even shut down or restart without my pc hanging up. This fixed all of that. THANK YOU!

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  12. Hey devs,
    I recently bought a Windows 10 laptop from walmart and worked perfectly well during starting days but one day the right click was working too slowly. i searched everywhere to find solutions for this problem. Finally I resolved it using this method. Thanks a lot, god bless you! ^_^

    Reply