highstream wrote:No, the whole point of my post is I couldn't remove it via Task Manager and I couldn't close XYplorer from there either. I tried numerous times, as well as trying numerous times via the pop ups that came from clicking on the close X. It was the only program (at first) responding that way. At some point early during one of the times XYplorer went nonresponsive, my recollection is vague on this, I right clicked on something for a context menu, then discovered after a bit that it was still there, stuck too.
I get into this same situation with 64-bit Context Menu Helper hanging and unable to kill it in Task Manager. This started sometime after the most recent Windows update.
-I can reliably reproduce it by right-clicking a JPG file in the file list. PNG files are also affected. So far, image files are the only ones affected.
-When I do that, an "invisible" mini-window is created for 64-bit CMH that shows the typical Windows 10 "I"m hung so here's a blank window for you".
-I can only get the hang window to display by hitting Win+Tab to bring up the Task Switcher.
-When I click it from the Task Switcher, it goes invisible again.
-If I right-click the .jpg file and wait, after about 30 seconds the context menu appears.
-If I immediately right-click again, I get a message that XY was unable to close the previous script and would I like to wait? Yes/No.
-It is only during this time that the 64-bit Context Menu Helper process is un-killable in Task Manager.
-If I disable the 64-bit menu showing up by default, then repeating the process causes the 32-bit XY context menu to hang the entire app with a spinning cursor wheel and it remains hung for about the same 30 seconds that the 64-bit context menu did.
-The .jpg files are all less than 100kB, and oddly enough, right button mouse down/blow up is instantaneous.
64-bit Windows 10 fully updated, dual 6-core Xeons, 64 GB RAM, SSD system drive, 7200 rpm data drive.