Solved Computer Context menu - Manage not working

[JackDinn]

Please, be gentle.

LOL , everyone is so afraid of sounding like they dont know everything about IT and thats impossible ,

Interesting idea though , i have been look through KAV's settings and there are a good few to go through. Just a pity i dont understand them all.

 

[Antman]

Chuckle. SIW2 likely understands that I am confessing that I do not grok how Windows works

I do fear that some readers can misinterpret a thought process and take it as fact.

 

[dgray55]

Just saw these messages and have a suggestion

I have had this happen to me 4 times over the last few months. It's not your software thats causing it. It's a Windows 7 RC bug that is happening to tons of people.

I had to deal with a Microsoft Support Tech twice and they acknowledge to me that this was a common error that was to be fixed eventually. Each time they suggested a bunch of registry stuff that didn't work.

Each time, restoring from my last image backup was the only solution I could find. It's a problem with the OS writing over the top of some obscure registry entries when settings are messed with. I also checked the same registry entries mentioned here and they were correct. I don't use Glary or Kapersky but have seen numerous others complain about this on the Microsoft forum.

Oh yeah...In addition to the desktop icon, it probably wont work to right click from the start menu either. Only if you run the msc or choose the menu entry in Administrative tools directly has mine worked.


I don't know if the RTM version is fixed but I can tell you it happens in both the 64-bit and 32-bit versions of the RC on two radically differnet computers. None of them used any kind of non-windows cleanup utilities. One had Norton AV and one had McAfee AV. Short of the restoral of my backups I've never got a fix.

The first time I had it happen was when I set the recycle bin to not display delete confirmations and then several desktop icons no longer responded to right-click commands. The second time I resetup a new network connection. That time only the right-click manage failed. (Could be run from the menu OK). Another time I was changing the way the start menu looked and bam! Right after that, again no right-click manage.

It seems it is Windows related. I wish I could give a better solution. It's been about a month since I tried to solve this.

 

[JackDinn]

Hi dgray55

It's a great relief to hear that its not just dumb ass me (as it so often is ). I have been researching long and hard, digging around for context menu tools, digging in loads of reg locations etc even got a copy of Yamicsoft Windows 7 Manger just to see if it might help in some way but alas no.(very good app though)

However on my travels i have found some interesting tweaks for win 7 context menus View attachment Windows 7 Context Menu Registry Tweaks.zip

Reading your description confirms that the problem i have is exactly the one your describing to the letter, even to the point that it did happen just after i changed the recycle bin to not ask for confirmation although i also had been changing/setting up my desktop as well (as you do after installing an OS) so i couldn't say for definite what i did to cause it, but it does make me feel better to hear what you had to say.

So thx very much for joining this forum to drop a note about this subject, i probably wouldn't have known for ages what had happened as i was kinda just about to start moving on and just trying to forget about it.

So sounds like all we can do is wait for an update from M$, if they get around to it any time soon.

Many thx,
JackDinn.

 

[amidoinitrite]

Im having the same problem.


When i click Manage, is opened CompMgmtLauncher.exe instead of compmgmt.msc

 

[harpua]

Fortunately, I'm not experiencing that problem on my system (7600 x64) and I've done a lot of registry hacks to add stuff to context menus. I hope you find a solution soon.

 

[TheVinesKid]

Hey guys. I've experienced this issue a lot, every build since (and including) 7100. Even the RTM gets it.
When I first noticed it there was nothing on the internets about the issue yet. lol I remeber telling Brink about it when I found it on 7100, and he hadn't heard about it.

I did however come up with an imediat fix for it once I found it. So I thought I'd let you guys know how and explain it.
As far as I can tell, it's the actual .exe that gets corrupt. I came to this conclusion from testing the .exe on machines that had a working one. The corrupt one will not run, however, the other one will.
To get yours working again, simply take control over the corrupt one, and replace it with the compmgmtlauncher from vista. Then it will work again, and will not quit working after a while.
This is more of a work around, but hey, it restores function to everything, like the "Manage" context menu entry.

There's no options loss or anything from replacing this with the vista file as far as I can tell, because I believe compmgmtlauncher.exe's soul purpose is to allow launching from context menu's and by other means, since it won't allow you to use compmgmt.msc that way.
So all it does it act as a shortcut to compmgmt.msc
I've kept a copy of my original compmgmtlauncher (the corrupt one), in a different location, just incase Microsoft releases a fix and I need it. So you might want to do the same

Use the Take Ownership shortcut from Mr. Grim to take full control of the corrupt .exe to replace it. (right-click system32 and take ownership)
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html

I've attached a copy of the compmgmtlauncher from an install of Vista Ultimate x86. It doesn't matter what version of 7 you're running, even x64 or x86, this will work
I hope this helps

To the Admins - If I'm not allow to upload this file, then I will remove it right away

 

[JackDinn]

Thx for the PM TheVinesKid, dunno why i wasn't getting email notification for this thread any more but i wasn't !

Anyhow your fix works perfectly TheVinesKid so many thx for that. How long did you spend trying to figure that out ?

nice work,
JackDinn.

 

[TheVinesKid]

Thx for the PM TheVinesKid, dunno why i wasn't getting email notification for this thread any more but i wasn't !

Anyhow your fix works perfectly TheVinesKid so many thx for that. How long did you spend trying to figure that out ?

nice work,
JackDinn.

No problem at all JackDinn. I'm glad I could help.

haha, actually I had the idea right away
It just took a few minutes to test it, and viola!

 

[JackDinn]

haha, actually I had the idea right away

well glad you did. I wouldn't have ever figured the .exe was becoming corrupt ! why is it even being re-written at all ?

o well no matter , thx again.

 

[TheVinesKid]

haha, actually I had the idea right away

well glad you did. I wouldn't have ever figured the .exe was becoming corrupt ! why is it even being re-written at all ?

o well no matter , thx again.

I honestly can't answer why it becomes corrupt. The simple answer is that it shouldn't.
But eh, what are you gonna do? (Besides find a fix for it )

You're welcome. Glad I helped

 

[gux2k3]

It may help

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

 

[HKEYLOCALUSER]

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.

 

[face]

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.

Hi,

I have just noticed an odd occurrence when i right click on Computer either on my desktop or the start menu & click Manage, it does nothing, just a timer circle for a sec and thats it. can run the Computer Management shortcut fine. I have had win 7 installed for a little while now and i know it was working fine up until yesterday.

I have seen others with the same or similar problem with running the manager from the computer context menus but the only answer iv seen is to do a repare install. There must be something better as how do i know it wont just happen again ? would any1 know what might have caused this? & if im really lucky how to fix it.

Thx All,
JackDinn.

 

[darkane]

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.

 

[Mastercare]

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.

 

[myself]

To get yours working again, simply take control over the corrupt one, and replace it with the compmgmtlauncher from vista. Then it will work again

Thank you very much! It worked on my machine (tripleboot XP, Vista and W7 Ultimate RTM). I googled almost the whole WWW untill I saw your post overhere! Great!!!

 

[bjproc]

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.

 

[TheVinesKid]

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.

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.

To get yours working again, simply take control over the corrupt one, and replace it with the compmgmtlauncher from vista. Then it will work again

Thank you very much! It worked on my machine (tripleboot XP, Vista and W7 Ultimate RTM). I googled almost the whole WWW untill I saw your post overhere! Great!!!

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.

Wow, thanks you guys
I'm very happy that I could help you all

 

[Tyseyh]

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

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/78815-manage-fix-file-does-not-have-program-associated.html