AS hangs when opening context menu

[gn4711]

heureka. the problem vanishes.

first. system is stable. no memory problems. but: my system is having 8 gb of DC chips. running vmware images and never had problems.

second. notepad++ has released a new version 5.5.1. i installed it over my old one (<5.5) without having any reasons (keeping software uptodate) and was wondering why "open with notepad++" was missing in the file explorer context menu. so, in a boring moment i tried the "servant behaviour", and here: no problem anymore.

so, i dont know the reason, but it works for me now. i will come up with an update if the behaviour happens again (f.e. after installing another notepad++ update). it seems the origin idea of a buggy addin was right. mea culpa

@selfman: but thanks for trieing finding a solution/reason for my problem.

[Jan Rysavy]

OK, so we are back to my first post in this thread.

The problem was in faulty shell extension (in this case Notepad++ context menu shell extension) and it was possible to find it out using ShellExView as was noted in my second post.

Thank you for confirming it.