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KuShellExtension64.dll - Explorer crashes when you right-click on a folder.

Not sure when this started happening in my Window 7 64bit. I had AllDup installed and intergration entries in my context menus working fine whenever I installed it on 22/04/28. Yesterday I discovered when I right click on Libraries or any item there-under, Doucment, Music, Pictures, Video, Explorer crashed with :-

"Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Runtime Error!

Program: C:Windowsexplorer.exe

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information."

The same error happened when right clicking some Startmenu options.

Of course I used ShellExView to discover the offending context menu handler and noticed I do not have the AllDup entries on my menus any more even enabeling and disabeling from the AllDup application had no effect. So I had to disable "KuShellExtension64.dll" with ShellExView.

I have not triend updating the AllDup yet or updating Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library but being windows 7, not much will be happening.

Windows 7 version 6.1.7601
AllDup version 4.5.42

Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 6.1.7601.23537, time stamp: 0x57c44efe
Faulting module name: msvcrt.dll, version: 7.0.7601.17744, time stamp: 0x4eeb033f
Exception code: 0x40000015
Fault offset: 0x000000000002a84e
Faulting process id: 0x2eec
Faulting application start time: 0x01da09030c47c615
Faulting application path: C:windowsexplorer.exe
Faulting module path: C:windowssystem32msvcrt.dll

I guess if anybody is already using using your applications, they will figure this out themselves fairly quickly so I don't know what help this will offer other than the post maybe being searchable from the internet.

The details of the shell extension that might cause the problem:

Shell Extension Name: !!KuShellExtension-{72F6A03F-7B17-4E65-AE37-666FC9024FA2}
Filename: KuShellExtension64.dll
Description:  
Company:  
Product Name:  
File Version:  
CLSID: {72F6A03F-7B17-4E65-AE37-666FC9024FA2}

If you think that you have similar problem in your system, you can try to fix the problem by disabling the specified shell extension. In order to do that, simply follow the instructions below:

  1. Download and run the ShellExView utility from this Web page.
  2. Find the right shell extension according the details specified above.
  3. Select this shell extension and press F7 to disable this extension. After disabling the shell extension, check if the problem still occurs. If the problem still occurs, you should enable back the shell extension by pressing F8, and then try to search for another shell extension that might cause your problem.

This shell extension problem was reported by Charlie