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I found an app known to cause this issue and sometimes causes the device manager link in system properties not to work and that is Badaboom, it has a submenu called badaboom in the context menu, I solved my issue by just removing the entry
It was not working in a clean install but it was in a Vista to Windows 7 upgrade. Maybe that file is not overwritten using upgrade.
Anyway, great job on coming up with a fix. Thanks again.
well, for what it's worth, i figured out the culprit in my situation. i was having the same problem and, furthermore, could not run windows backup. thanks to a few people on these forums hinting that it was a context-menu problem, i was able to isolate the offending program. i knew that in my case it had to be either winamp, winrar, vlc, or quicksfv. i removed them one by one and tested both manage and backup. turns out it was quicksfv that did the trick for me, in the end.
I just registered on these forums personally to thank you TheVines, i had this exact same problem as Jack. I was searching & searching all over the net and couldn't find a single topic about this issue until this thread popped up. You've saved me a very painful formatting process so a big thanks for that.
Cheers.
Hi,
I had the same problem, it started after I had installed Steganos Safe 2008. Following this install I could not right click and run "Manage" from the Computer menu on the start up screen. I uninstalled Steganos Safe 2008 and the problem was resolved. (By the way this function works OK
with Steganos Safe 2008 and Vista).
I logged onto the Steganos site and saw that they were advertising Steganos Privacy Suite 11 as Windows 7 compatible. I purchased Privacy Suite 11 and on installing it, found that the problem returned, on uninstalling this programe, right clicking on " Manage" worked OK.
On contacting Steganos the instructed me to reinstall Privacy Suite 11 and go into C:\Program Files\Steganos Privacy Suite 11 and rename the file ShellExtension.dll to ShellExtension.dllBAK, having done this, right clicking on "Manage" now works and opens Computer Management.
I feel that this is a workaround rather than a proper fix and have asked Steganos to get back to me with a "patch" or an update, I await their reply.
My version of Windows 7 is 7600.16385.x86 (full retail installed on a new hard drive), and the version of Steganos Safe 2008 is 10.1.1 (Revision 5486) and Steganos Privacy Suite 11 is version 11.0.06 (Revision 7858)
Given the above perhaps your problem is caused with a program behaving in a similar manner.
Best wishes,
Jim.
2nd Nov 2009 22:23 GMT.
i have a clean install on a new HDD and i have this problem, i've not tried the fix yet, but it have been good reading.
:)
hello everyone iv been reading through all the posts here and someone was right about the reg key except the one posted here didnt work for me. my problem was Right click my Computer - manage- Loading circle for a sec then goes. Thats it, nothing. I added this key that i found somewhere else an it works just fine. I wish i knew the site which i got it from.
Anyway please by all means check it make sure its not malicious or anything ( If thats even possible from a reg key ) id imagine it could be. Anyway here it is but please be warned this isnt my key, i didnt find the solution i simply found a site with the solution.
Here is it :)
Manage - Fix "File does not have a program associated"
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