Wow, I'm on a roll with breaking technology. Two weeks ago one of my monitors at work died, the remaining monitor this morning wasn't receiving a signal from the video card, yesterday my laptop couldn't run Word, a month ago one of the memory modules in my MacBook Pro became corrupted... what's next!
Well today I couldn't right click, rename, or delete a file/folder. The Windows File Explorer would crash immediately. I tried un-installing a bunch of things, rebooting, etc... but with no luck.
I came across a funky free tool called Shell Extension Manager for Windows. It allows you to see all the extensions (plugins) into the file explorer, and disable them while not having to actually uninstall things.
This is great, because it allows you to easily do a process of elimination... and what it turned out to be is Adobe Drive CS4. Which makes sense as the day before I re-installed CS4 Master Collection (because of course...I break technology, and everything in CS4 worked except for Dreamweaver, it said my license was expired, even though all the other CS4 products worked fine).
Anyhoo, the simple fix was to disable the Adobe Drive CS4 file explorer extension and all will be well.
...what issues are in store for tomorrow? :)
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