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TalonJace
Nov 03, 2025Iron Contributor
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...
TomKimg
Nov 04, 2025Iron Contributor
The issue you're experiencing—where right-clicking certain .exe shortcuts or files causes Explorer to hang with a spinning blue circle, and where the problem is limited to specific files—suggests a nuanced problem with shell extensions, context menu handlers, or possibly file-specific attributes.