Is there a trick to getting right-click to work?

[JohnnyTea]

I am brand new to FC. I installed the current version, then backed up to an older version to try to fix the problem -- but nothing works. I've looked thru help and the forum and tried every remotely possible option. Nothing helps.

In both of them the right click on a file name doesn't give the usual context menu (cut, edit, open with, rename, etc). It will give it every once in a while (it always does with "hyberfil.sys" & "pagefile.sys" in the C: root) But virtually nothing else. It will give a context menu out in the open space.

I'm running XP Home SP3 on an emachine (2.13 Ghz, 1.46 RAM).

If someone can help with this I am definitely interested! Thanks ahead of time.

[Dreamer]

Strange, try to reinstall the program, close FC, rename the FreeCommander.ini file and start FC as administrator.

[JohnnyTea]

Tried your suggestion - thanks - didn't work

Could this be an XP corruption issue?

[JohnnyTea]

Problem Solved

Turned out to be caused by a 3rd party shell extension. I don't know which one yet. Got to look through about 20 of them. But when I disabled them all, the right click worked fine.

The advice and specific how-to came from

http://www.helpwithwindows.com/techfile ... ashes.html

[ZXX]

I thought that would be under this topic so I might as well ask

Say that I really don't like system's R-click, especially since everyone and their dog wants to place their own item in there. So ideally when I'm inside FC then I'd want FC's copy/rename/move/wipe etc., and if they'd also be configurable, even better, althoguht I don't see much need for anything beyond WinRar as a possible addition. The key is consistency - not to have to always wonder what has been changed on a particular system (USB stick use or course .