Explorer falls in some loop while right-clicking an .exe,never opens up the properties panel.

As the topic says, when I right-click some shortcut to an exe file or right-click the file itself, the window I'm in gets a rotating blue mouse pointer and stays like that for ever.
At this point, I can't even close that window (it's busy I suppose) but I can close it from the taskbar.

The following made no difference:

Tried the modern explorer and the classic explorer change (at the moment I'm using the classic)
DISM checks (no errors found),
disabling all non-Microsoft shell extensions with ShellExView,
rebooting after every change I tried.

Curiosities:

The above doesn't happen for all .exe files and their shortcuts. The files that have a problem are usually bigger in size but why would that affect the profile's display?
All of them work fine if I use a 3rd-party explorer (I used Total Commander and Directory Opus). This implies it can't be anything critical in some shell extension or the registry.

In the special case of restarting the explorer through ShellExView Options, the explorer starts up as usual but with a black and empty desktop. But the right-click problem goes away. Right-click works as usual until I restart the Explorer through some other way.
Only some file groups on the desktop along with Recycle Bin and they all respond just fine.

Any way to reset the desktop (after I copy my file groups to a safe space of course).
I'm out of any other ideas.

Thanks in advance.