Vista - error message "Windows Explorer has stopped working"

For some reason whenever I right click something, e.g. to create a short
cut, to unzip a file, etc.I now get a message "Windows explorer has stopped
working" with the usual message about check for solution and restarting.

I had not installed any new program, Norton does not show any spyware,
virus. I checked the Microsoft knowledge base and discovered this is a very
commonly reported issue, but have been unable to find a solution., that
works.

Does anyone know of a solution?

Running Vista Home Premium with SP1 installed

Jer wrote:
Right-click issues are most commonly caused by third-party software that has
added an entry in the context menu. These entries are easily managed with
the free ShellExView software.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

These articles were written for XP but the concept is the same for Vista:

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

Manage the context-menu entries for folders, drives and Namespace objects -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/context_folders.htm

Malke
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