problems with context menus

after being infected with a "Generic" worm and cleaning my pc I noticed that my windows context menu are missing some of its submenus..
- The desktop con. menu missing the Arrange and New submenus.
- The partition con. menu missing the New submenu.
How can I fix this without having to reinstall windows?

 

Hi Minacross,

Page search context over on Kelly's Korner "tweak's" page. I'm not sure which you'll need, or how far you'll get.

Check context again this page while you're there - http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_c.htm

Perhap's Ramesh - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/openwithsub.htm

In review, I'm no longer confident my previous suggestion's were appropriate.
Perhap's a better route surfaces knowing this *worm's* name?

I doubt file association's, SFC my other consideration.

Thinking a "detached" explorer or shell dll's to blame, Dial-A-Fix came to mind.
*Check WARNINGS should you decide to give'er a spin.





Steve

 

Hello minacross,

Try ShellExView see if you can enable the missing submenus. You can download it here: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Niels

 

If your pc reacts other than expected it is most likely no longer trustworthy. That means you have the choice:
To use a system restore point before the infection
To restore from an image, that you hopefully have made.
To make a fresh installation and learn, that the first duty in computing is backing up.